Iran spurns US talks
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Iran on Thursday spurned a U.S. offer of   direct talks on its nuclear program as major world powers   sought agreement on incentives to coax it to scrap potentially   weapons-related atomic work.
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Iran has postponed a scheduled round of talks with the United States in Baghdad on Iraqi security, giving no reason for the delay, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday.
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IRAN yesterday froze sensitive nuclear work, including uranium enrichment, in a move likely to thwart United States efforts to report the Islamic state to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran rejected the total suspension of its uranium enrichment activities as a new round of talks with European negotiators ended, the Associated Press reported, citing Sirus Naseri, a member of the Iranian delegation.
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Iran warned the United States on Sunday  not to attack its nuclear facilities and said talks with  European nations might produce a deal to defuse the dispute  over its alleged ambitions to build atomic weapons.
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The United States urged Iran on Monday to stop supporting militias in Iraq in the most high-profile meeting between the two countries in almost 30 years that both sides later described as positive.
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Iran's foreign minister said Saturday the United States was in no position for another war, and maintained that negotiations &#151; not threats &#151; were the only way to resolve the standoff over its nuclear activities.
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Iran on Tuesday defied international calls for it to stop enriching uranium, a day before a U.N. deadline for it to back down.
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Iran dismissed on Tuesday threats of force to make it back down over its nuclear program and said only negotiations -- without the precondition that it stop enriching uranium -- could resolve the dispute.
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Iranian and U.S. officials will not hold bilateral talks when they are together in Egypt next week, Iran's president said Wednesday, echoing comments made earlier by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that Iran does not need negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program, apparently seeking to reassure hard-liners the country will not cave in as it considers a key Western incentives package.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Iran wanted further talks to address the West's concerns about its nuclear program but said the country would not abandon its efforts to make nuclear fuel.
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Iran's president says he wants talks on his nation's nuclear programme, but rules out pre-conditions set by the UN.
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Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives.
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Iran said on Saturday it would reject  any proposal to halt uranium enrichment, a step European Union  diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is  seeking atomic weapons.
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, as demanded by the West, but is still holding talks about its nuclear program, the Iranian government spokesman said on Monday.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr   Mottaki said on Friday there was no "reason or logic" to   suspending Iran's nuclear work and talks were the only way to   resolve a standoff with the West, according to state TV.