Iran says its first atom plant to start in mid-2008
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Iran's first atomic power plant will start operating in mid-2008, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday, two days after the country received a second delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia.
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Iran has started building a second atomic power plant, Iran's Ambassador to Russia Gholamreza Ansari was quoted as saying on Friday by Itar-Tass news agency.
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Shrugging off an ultimatum from the U.N. nuclear agency, Iran revealed Tuesday that it started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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Iran says it is ready to offer new proposals to meet international concern about its nuclear programme.
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TEHRAN - An Iranian nuclear plant which atomic experts say could give the Islamic state access to bomb-grade material is nearing completion, a senior Iranian nuclear official said on Wednesday.
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The state-run Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant said Monday that the reactor's launch will be postponed because of Iranian payment delays.
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VIENNA: Iran plans to process tonnes of raw uranium and restart its centrifuges - two linked activities that can be part of the manufacture of nuclear warheads, the UN atomic watchdog agency and diplomats said yesterday.
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Statements made by Iranian officials on Tuesday confirmed earlier reports that uranium enrichment processes had begun in Iran and that UN pressure would not divert Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program.
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Iran expects to have its own nuclear-generated electricity by this time next year and will not bow to Western pressure to halt uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.
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Iran is ready to prove to the world it  is not producing atomic weapons provided the West recognizes  the Islamic Republic's right to peaceful nuclear technology,  President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday.
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Iran said it would test a rocket launcher on Monday that was designed to send the Islamic Republic's first homemade research satellite into orbit by March 2009, state media reported.
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Iran is considering a novel way to reassure the world about its atomic ambitions: it plans to open its nuclear facilities to tourists.
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Iran has started building a second atomic power plant in an oil-rich region near the border with Iraq, Iran's Ambassador to Russia was quoted as saying Friday by Itar-Tass news agency.
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Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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22 August 2004 -- Iran said today it is planning to build more nuclear power plants with Russian help, ignoring US concerns that byproducts from the plants could be used to manufacture nuclear bombs.
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The fuel is ready for Iran's first atomic power plant being built by Russia and talks with Moscow to resolve a dispute that has held up work are moving forward, Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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Iran says its first nuclear reactor, being built with the help of Russia, will not go on line until October 2006, a year later than planned.