Chirac backtracks after Iran bomb threat brush off
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French President Jacques Chirac backtracked on Thursday after saying it would not be dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, a sharp departure from France's position and the stance of close allies.
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European countries are losing patience  with Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said on Friday,  as France's foreign minister insisted Tehran must assure the  world it does not plan to acquire nuclear weapons.
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French President Jacques Chirac plays down the threat from a nuclear-armed Iran, but later retracts his comments.
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While the French foster a sense of urgency over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran's neighbors are fearful of what a showdown may bring
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Iran backs down on its demand to exempt some of its technology from a nuclear freeze, diplomats say.
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France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to "negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite."
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FranceÂs leader said today that those seeking talks with Tehran should drop their insistence that it halt uranium enrichment before talks begin.
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French President Jacques Chirac toned down his criticism of Britain&#39;s role in the Iraq war as he arrived yesterday on a two-day visit celebrating the Entente
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Last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and ousting of former leader Saddam Hussein has made the world more dangerous by provoking terrorism, French President Jacques Chirac said on the eve of a state visit to ...
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French President Jacques Chirac told  reporters an Iran that possessed one or two nuclear weapons  would not pose much of a danger and then retracted many of his  comments, the International Herald Tribune said on Thursday.
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French President Jacques Chirac has said it would not be very dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, but later retracted the remark, according to an interview with two U.S. newspapers and a French magazine published on Thursday.
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France, Britain and Germany have toughened their stance on Iran&#39;s nuclear programme, demanding that Tehran halt all parts of the atomic fuel cycle that can
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President Jacques Chirac backtracked Thursday and said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable, reversing earlier comments that Tehran's possession of a nuclear bomb would not be "very dangerous."
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The UN nuclear watchdog partly cleared Iran on Monday of charges it tried to make a nuclear bomb, a day after Tehran promised Europe it would freeze what critics said was an atomic weapons program.
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French foreign minister says country has to prepare for possibility of war against Iran over nuclear programme.
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While the French foster a sense of urgency over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran's neighbors are fearful of a showdown
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on  Monday a diplomatic push by the world&#39;s powers to rein in  Tehran&#39;s nuclear program was the only alternative to &quot;an  Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran.&quot;