Rice says to use Security Council to pressure Iran
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World powers will use all possible channels and the United Nations Security Council to get Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear work and start talks, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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The United States wants the U.N.   Security Council to take up the issue of Iran's nuclear   programme and draft a resolution setting out sanctions after   more talks between world powers next week, U.S. Undersecretary   of State Nicholas Burns said on Friday.
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"To those who say that we should handle Iran with kid gloves, since it could destabilize the region, I say this: look at its adventurism today and imagine what it would be like if Tehran thought itself one day protected by a nuclear umbrella"  The United States and France agree on how to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.At a joint news conference Rice gave with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, both officials spoke of the need for new sanctions against Iran.'I think that there's, essentially, no difference in the way that we see the situation in Iran and what the international community must do,' Rice said.Warm words between the two foreign policy counterparts marked a narrowing of differences since the days that Kouchner's predecessor, Dominique de Villepin, helped block a United Nations resolution sought by the United States on Iraq. Read more
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - The international community will have no choice but to impose sanctions on Iran if it fails to suspend uranium enrichment, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  began her first foreign tour as America's top diplomat by  saying Friday that Washington had no immediate plans to attack  Iran and was pursuing a diplomatic approach.
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Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the UN atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the UN Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.
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After a series of tough statements about Iran from the Bush administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( news - web sites ) said Friday that a U.S. attack was "simply not on the agenda" for now in the ...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seeks on Friday to repair ties with Europe over Iraq but her tough line on Iran risks undermining transatlantic attempts to heal the rift on her first trip as the top U.S. diplomat.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan, Nov. 30 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled Thursday that the United States is willing to risk a breach with Russia if the Russians do not soon sign on to a U.N. Security Council resolution to punish Iran for its nuclear activities.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today urged other permanent members of the UN Security Council not to allow their "credibility to decline" by failing to act against Iran.
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The US has finally signed on to a European draft resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and is optimistic it will quickly pass through the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told AFP in an exclusive interview.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza   Rice said on Tuesday the international community faced a   "credibility issue" if it did not impose U.N. sanctions against   Iran for refusing to abandon nuclear activities.
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Iran is a major obstacle to the US vision of a Middle East in which nations will "trade more, invest more, talk more and work more constructively to solve problems," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says
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The United States expects the U.N. Security Council to impose new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear ambitions in the coming weeks, despite objections from Russia and China, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said on Thursday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scolded the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Wednesday over its Iran strategy and called for diplomacy with "teeth" to end Tehran's nuclear plans.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday it was likely Washington will seek another U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution on Iran because of its nuclear program, but no decision had been made.
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The UN Security Council takes up the issue this week, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran.