IAEA cuts back aid projects in Iran in nuclear row
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The U.N. nuclear agency has cut back almost half its aid projects in Iran to uphold U.N. sanctions imposed on Tehran over its disputed atomic energy program, according to a report obtained by Reuters on Friday.
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VIENNA -- The UN nuclear watchdog agency effectively agreed yesterday to deny Iran technical help in building a plutonium-producing reactor but left room for Tehran to renew its request in two years, diplomats said.
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Iran's foreign minister warned on Friday that the latest punitive move by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency &#151; the suspension of nearly two dozen nuclear aid programs &#151; could affect Tehran's cooperation with the agency.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog said that Iran has agreed to suspend all uranium enrichment activities, according to a draft resolution before the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
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Iran has formally withdrawn its demand to exempt research and development on uranium enrichment technology from a freeze of its enrichment program aimed at easing fears it wants atomic weapons, a Western diplomat said.
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Iran has agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment programme in an attempt to ease concerns that its nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, a Western diplomat close to the United Nations said today.
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Iran agreed to freeze all its nuclear programme last night, dropping its insistence that some uranium enrichment activities be exempted from a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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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 is expanding its nuclear program in defiance of United Nationsâ resolutions, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.
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U.N. nuclear agency governors on Thursday ratified cuts in technical aid to Iran over concern that Tehran might be trying to build nuclear bombs under cover of a civilian atomic energy program, diplomats said.
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Iran on Monday suspended sensitive nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move likely to thwart U.S. efforts to report the Islamic Republic to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator has called off a trip to Europe to discuss the crisis over his country's atomic ambitions as the UN nuclear watchdog prepared a report recommending cuts in technical aid to Iran.
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VIENNA -- Facing fierce international pressure, Iran backed off yesterday from its demand to be allowed to continue operating some uranium enrichment equipment, salvaging a deal with the UN's atomic watchdog agency that nonproliferation officials hope would curb Tehran's alleged nuclear ambitions.
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Iran has slowed the expansion of its disputed uranium enrichment program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, after Western powers threatened to hit Tehran with harsher sanctions.
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Talks between Tehran and the EU on  Iran's nuclear programme have been put back, Iranian officials say.
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Iran on Sunday denounced as "illegal" demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment &#151; a technology that can be used for nuclear weapons &#151; and threatened to limit cooperation with the agency if it moves toward sanctions.
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WASHINGTON - Mohamed ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, urged the Bush administration yesterday to soften its statements about Iran while maintaining diplomatic pressure to halt the nuclear enrichment that could lead to the production of a nuclear weapon.