Diplomats: Iran working on uranium plant
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Technical crews have hauled centrifuges into Iran's vast underground Natanz complex and were on the threshold of launching a program that could be used to create nuclear arms, diplomats said Friday.
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Iran's decision to keep preparing raw  uranium for enrichment, a step on the way to making nuclear  weapons, breaks the spirit though not the letter of its pledge  to freeze all such activity, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Technicians have assembled two small uranium enrichment units at Iran's underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday. The move underscored Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council ban on the program, which can be used to create nuclear arms.
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Iran seems to have made little progress towards enriching uranium in significant amounts this summer but it is unclear whether technical problems or fear of stiffer U.N. sanctions lie behind the slowdown, diplomats say.
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VIENNA : Iran is producing the uranium feedstuff that could be used to make nuclear weapons, only days before it is due to introduce a promised ban on all such enrichment activities, diplomats told AFP.
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Iran's foreign minister said Monday that talks between top Iranian and European negotiators on his country's disputed nuclear program are "on track" and could pave the way for a negotiated solution to the standoff.
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Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Iran said Thursday that talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog on investigating traces of weapons-grade uranium found at a Tehran university were constructive, state media reported.
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Iran has been testing parts for machines that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, despite a promise to temporarily refrain from all such activities, Western diplomats said on Thursday.
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Nuclear energy officials hosted an Iranian delegation Wednesday for talks on the construction of a Russian-built plant that has fallen behind schedule because of what Moscow said were delays in payments by Tehran.
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VIENNA, Austria -- Iran has invited an International Atomic Energy Agency team to Tehran to work on a plan for clearing up suspicions about its nuclear program, an IAEA spokeswoman said Monday.
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Iran has met its commitments to Russia  over building the Islamic Republic&#39;s first nuclear power plant  and is ready to go beyond those commitments to assist the work,  an Iranian official said on Sunday.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic weapons -- in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog.
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BERLIN - Iran is working on a secret nuclear programme for military purposes despite promising the European Union it would halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, the news magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.
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Iran is testing an advanced centrifuge at its Natanz nuclear complex, diplomats said on Wednesday, a move that could lead to Tehran enriching uranium much faster and gaining ability to build atom bombs.
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A key Iranian nuclear facility which the  U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has urged Tehran to shut down is  nearing completion, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on  Sunday.
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VIENNA -- Iran has agreed to give the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency a new look at a military complex linked by the United States to possible atomic arms research, diplomats said yesterday.