Iran freezes sensitive nuclear work to avert threat of sanctions
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TEHRAN  - Iran said it was freezing its controversial nuclear fuel work in a move welcomed hailed by the head of the UN&#39;s atomic watchdog as a step in the right direction to easing fears the Islamic regime is seeking the bomb.
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Iran has halted sensitive nuclear activity, including uranium enrichment, as part of a deal to escape possible trade sanctions by the United Nations.
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TEHRAN  - Iran&#39;s top national security official said that Tehran had only agreed to a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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TEHERAN - Iranâs top national security official said Tuesday that Teheran had only agreed to a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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Iran vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions 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 will announce its final decision  later on Sunday on an EU proposal that it freeze sensitive  nuclear work in return for avoiding referral to the U.N.  Security Council for possible sanctions, local news agencies  reported.
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Iran has suspended work on nuclear technology that the United States warned could be used to make weapons, the CBC reported Sunday.
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Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council.
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Iran said on Friday it might extend a partial freeze on uranium enrichment in order to ease Western fears about its nuclear ambitions, but a senior U.S. official dismissed this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action.
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Iran is asking to be allowed to renege on a commitment to freeze all uranium-enrichment activities and be allowed to operate dozens of centrifuges, according to news reports.
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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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Iran is demanding that it be allowed to make an exception in its commitment to freeze all uranium enrichment activities so it can operate about about two dozen centrifuges, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Iran suspended sensitive nuclear work yesterday in the hope of averting a referral to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions over fears that it is seeking to develop a nuclear bomb.
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Iran toughened its position over its nuclear program Sunday, vowing to maintain its demand to exempt 20 centrifuges it says it wants for research despite international efforts to save a deal committing Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities.
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Iran said yesterday that demands from the UN atomic watchdog to freeze all uranium enrichment work that can be used for nuclear weapons were &quot;illegal,&quot; but left open the possibility it was ready to negotiate on the issue.
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Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear program as a U.N. deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran's statement that it may extend its  freeze on uranium enrichment to ease fears about its atomic  plans is an obvious ploy to prevent tough action by the U.N.  nuclear watchdog, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.