Iran holds atomic fete with UN deadline looming
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Iran marks the 28th anniversary of its revolution on Sunday seeking to show a nation united over its nuclear policy, but Western pressure and cautious voices at home dampened prospects for a big statement on atomic progress.
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A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said.
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Iran's chief nuclear envoy said Tuesday his country wants to negotiate over its uranium enrichment program, on the eve of a U.N. Security Council deadline that carries the threat of harsher sanctions. But the country's hard-line president said Iran will halt enrichment only if Western nations do the same.
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Iran's president said on Wednesday his country would not surrender to pressure as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.
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In a sign of cooperation, Iran pledged to meet its deadline and suspend its uranium enrichment activities on Monday.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should stand up to the world and pursue its nuclear program, after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says will be used to make atom bombs.
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Iran said Monday it is not concerned about this week's U.N. deadline demanding it suspend a key part of its disputed nuclear program or face political and economic sanctions.
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Iran has persisted in enriching uranium despite the threat of U.N. sanctions and a looming deadline to freeze such operations, U.N. and European officials said Wednesday.
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Iran will not respond to incentives to halt its nuclear program before mid-July, at least two weeks past the date sought by the U.S. and its partners, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday after meeting Iran&#039;s foreign minister.
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Iran said it would meet the European  Union's Monday deadline for suspending uranium enrichment and  allay fears it was trying to make a nuclear bomb -- the freeze  could spare it from U.N. sanctions.
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VIENNA -- Iran defied a United Nations deadline for suspending uranium enrichment, and has not cooperated with inspectors trying to assess whether its program is for peaceful purposes, the UN's nuclear watchdog reported yesterday.
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Iran will honor its pledge to the European Union and U.N. nuclear watchdog to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities, Tehran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday.
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Iran still refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment before the start of talks on its nuclear program &#151; a key demand by the six nations locked in a diplomatic standoff with the Islamic republic, officials said Tuesday.
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The UN nuclear watchdog says Iran failed to halt uranium enrichment activity ahead of a deadline.
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Iran vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions hours as a   U.N. deadline fell due for Tehran to stop work that the West   fears could lead to atomic bombs.
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Iran has pushed ahead with a uranium enrichment program in defiance of a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend it, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported today. The finding appeared likely to trigger U.S. efforts to obtain harsher U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Iran vowed on Thursday not to bow to   Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was expected to   report Tehran had defied a deadline to halt work which the West   fears could help it build nuclear bombs.