Resistance to Iran sanctions grows as powers meet
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The United States faced growing   opposition on Thursday to its bid to persuade other powers to   impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, with China   urging dialogue and France signaling room for maneuver.
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Sanctions the U.S. is seeking could start with restrictions on IranÂs imports of nuclear material, but the plan faces a high hurdle at the U.N.
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A three-year international effort to pressure Iran is faltering, with a new report to Congress questioning the impact of 20 years of U.S. economic sanctions on Tehran and a long-sought U.N. resolution against Iran in trouble.
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The world's major powers are struggling to reach agreement on new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment with the U.S. and Europe pushing for tougher measures than Russia and China will accept, council diplomats said Wednesday.
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Major powers are set to hold talks on Thursday to discuss a third U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, the U.S. State Department.
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The United States is urging its allies to go beyond U.N. sanctions against Iran over its atomic program and choke off foreign investment but is meeting strong Russian and European resistance, Western diplomats said.
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Diplomats from six world powers failed on Tuesday to agree on a draft resolution for a sanctions plan on Iran for its nuclear program, but major European nations said they wanted such a pact by the year's end.
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With the threat of new U.N. sanctions looming, senior European officials met Friday with a ranking envoy from Iran in what officials described as an attempt to defuse the crisis over the Islamic republic's refusal to scrap uranium enrichment.
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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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Top diplomats from the world's major powers will try to reach agreement Saturday on new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. A U.S. official predicted the session would lead to a "substantive resolution."
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Officials from six world powers meet in Paris on Tuesday seeking progress toward ending a deadlock that has held up agreement over a sanctions resolution on Iran's nuclear program.
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Western powers meet in London on Monday to discuss tightening U.N. sanctions on Iran amid a flurry of tough and sometimes colorful talk between Washington and Tehran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
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WASHINGTON -- US officials and their European allies are gearing up to impose targeted sanctions on Iran, which has defied a UN Security Council order to halt the enrichment of uranium by today.
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In the eyes of six world powers, Iran  has failed to meet a U.N. Security Council demand that it  suspend uranium enrichment, a senior European Union diplomat  said, in a move which could pave the way for sanctions.
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Foreign Ministers of the US and five other key nations plan to meet next week to discuss possible new sanctions against Iran for refusing to freeze uranium enrichment and heed other UN Security Council demands, ... via IranMania News
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Major powers on Thursday made progress toward agreeing on new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program and hope to have their U.N. ambassadors begin drafting a formal Security Council resolution next week, a senior U.S. official said.
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U.N. ambassadors from major powers began negotiations on Monday on a resolution that would increase sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program but agreement still remained elusive.