Iran defiant on nuclear freeze
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IRAN&#39;S top national security official said yesterday Tehran had agreed to only a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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VIENNA -- Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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Iran's nuclear envoy reiterates his country's refusal to stop its nuclear programme after talks with EU officials.
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Iran vowed defiantly on Thursday not to   bow to Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was   expected to report Tehran had failed to meet a deadline to halt   work which the West fears could help it build a nuclear bomb.
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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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The deadlines are all past, yet Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program.
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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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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says could to used for making bombs.
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday, ruling out the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran a day before talks with the EU's Javier Solana.
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Iran insisted Thursday it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said
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Iran vows to defend its nuclear activities to the end, as world powers prepare for talks on more sanctions.
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Iran confirmed Wednesday it was holding talks with Europe on freezing some nuclear activities but said it won't give up its plan to control the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from mining uranium to enriching it.
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to freeze its uranium enrichment activities for a few  months and would not, as the EU and Washington want,  permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.
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Iran Sunday rejected European demands it  abandon sensitive nuclear activities but reiterated its  readiness to provide assurances that its atomic ambitions are  entirely peaceful.
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Iran wants talks on its nuclear program but rejects preconditions demanding it freeze the work, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, just ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to back down.
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Tehran will remain steady in pursuing its disputed nuclear program and hopes the U.N. Security Council won't approve further sanctions, Iran's foreign ministry said Sunday.
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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.