Iran says won't rule out using oil as a weapon
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Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, an Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday.
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Vienna - Equipped with black-market blueprints of a nuclear bomb and some weapons-grade uranium, Iran is defying the United Nations by secretly continuing supposedly suspended activities as it presses ahead with plans to have atomic arms by next year, an
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Iran&#39;s foreign minister says that Tehran will never fully dismantle its nuclear capabilities, also voicing the country&#39;s concerns about the threat of a pre-emptive strike by Washington.
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Iran is ready to prove to the world it is not producing atomic weapons if the West recognizes the Islamic Republic's right to have peaceful nuclear technology, President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday.
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There is no evidence for the Iranian president's announcement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running, which would allow it to produce significant amounts of nuclear fuel, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said.
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Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons but does not intend doing so, a senior Iranian official said here Wednesday. &quot;We do not intend making nuclear weapons,&quot; said Ali Akbar Soltan, deputy director
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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 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a U.S. television interview on Sunday that Iran did not need nuclear weapons and his country was not heading for war with the United States.
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The United States is determined to stop Iran getting atomic weapons, and has signalled Washington will not rule out an attack if peaceful diplomacy failed to achieve this.
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology regardless of threats of more sanctions, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a letter to his French counterpart issued on Monday by an Iranian news agency.
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IRAN said today it was not obliged to allow UN atomic energy agency inspectors to visit military sites alleged to be involved in secret nuclear weapons work, but that it was willing to discuss the issue.
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Iran's top leader said Saturday the country's oil and gas reserves will eventually dry up and defended the drive to produce nuclear fuel, claiming it was the only way to avoid dependence on the West for energy.
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Iran says it will not give up its plans to build a heavy-water nuclear reactor.
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President Bush said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country was not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons program.
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Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
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Iran on Monday denied U.S. accusations that it was stoking violence in Iraq by supplying militants with Iranian-made weapons and that those at the "highest levels" of Tehran's government were involved.
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Iran on Saturday brushed aside warnings  by G8 leaders that it would face further U.N. sanctions if it  failed to halt uranium enrichment work.