Iran leader: New UN sanctions unlikely
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday in a live television interview that there were no grounds for imposing new U.N. sanctions on his country.
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Iran warned on Thursday it may reconsider basic cooperation with United Nations nuclear inspectors if it was hit with harsher U.N. sanctions over its expanding atomic program.
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Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday restoring ties with the United States now would harm the Islamic state, but he did not rule it out in the future.
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Iran vowed on Thursday not to bow to   Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was expected to   report Tehran had defied a deadline to halt work which the West   fears could help it build nuclear bombs.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is poised to deliver a defiant address to the United Nations general assembly this week amid a storm of opposition to his visit to New York and growing international alarm over his country's nuclear ambitions.
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Iran is unlikely to accept European incentives aimed at getting it to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said Thursday, raising the likelihood of a showdown with the UN nuclear watchdog agency next month.
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Iran's president voiced defiance on Wednesday as world powers hoped to put the finishing touches on a draft text imposing new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying the country would not surrender.
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Iran said Monday it is not concerned about this week's U.N. deadline demanding it suspend a key part of its disputed nuclear program or face political and economic sanctions.
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A senior Iranian official said Wednesday  that Iran has no fear of being sent to the U.N. Security  Council for violating the non-proliferation pact, though it  would be a setback in its cooperation with the U.N.
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Iran will not suspend its uranium enrichment work as demanded by a U.N. sanctions resolution, the country's top nuclear official said on Sunday in the latest statement of defiance from Tehran as a U.N. deadline looms.
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A top Iranian cleric expressed optimism Friday that Iran&#39;s nuclear case might not be referred to the United Nations Security Council, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Russia said Wednesday a new draft U.N. resolution on Iran's disputed nuclear program does not call for any harsh sanctions, and the Iranian president said new measures would not deter the country in its pursuit of nuclear technology.
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Russia said Wednesday a draft U.N. resolution on Iran's nuclear program does not call for any harsh sanctions, and the Iranian president said new measures would not deter the country's pursuit of nuclear technology.
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Iran expects the United Nations to hold off on new sanctions while Tehran pursues new talks with the UN atomic agency about its disputed nuclear work, a senior Iranian official said Friday.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday that Iran wanted to find   a negotiated solution to its nuclear dispute with the West but   would not freeze uranium enrichment before talks.
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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.
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Sanctions will not succeed in stopping Iran's nuclear progress, its president said on Saturday, a day after major powers said they had "serious and constructive" talks about new U.N. punitive measures.