Defiant Iran set to spurn U.N. deadline on uranium
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A U.N. deadline for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities expires Thursday with Iran showing no signs it intends to comply.
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Iran's chief nuclear envoy said Tuesday his country wants to negotiate over its uranium enrichment program, on the eve of a U.N. Security Council deadline that carries the threat of harsher sanctions. But the country's hard-line president said Iran will halt enrichment only if Western nations do the same.
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IranÂs president told the U.N. secretary general that he would not halt uranium enrichment before negotiations.
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A deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment expires on Thursday, with UN powers mulling possible sanctions.
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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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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says will be used to make atom bombs.
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Iran insists it will continue its controversial nuclear programme, ahead of UN talks on possible new sanctions.
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Iran vowed on Wednesday to press on with its nuclear fuel program, ignoring a U.N. deadline to freeze uranium enrichment or face broader sanctions, but offered to guarantee it would not try to develop atomic weapons.
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Iran promised to meet Monday's deadline  for suspending a uranium enrichment process that could be used  for making nuclear weapons -- a freeze that could spare it U.N.  Security Council sanctions.
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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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Western powers have set July 12 as a deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and agree to talks on its nuclear program or face the threat of U.N. Security Council sanctions, diplomats said Monday.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali   Khamenei said on Monday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit   of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a U.N. demand it   stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions.
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Tehran is confident of reaching a  negotiated settlement over its nuclear program, a senior  Iranian diplomat said in Tokyo on Thursday, as the United  Nations nuclear watchdog seemed set to report that Iran had  defied a deadline to halt atomic fuel work.
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TEHRAN - Iran reacted yesterday with defiance to a resolution from the UN&#39;s atomic watchdog, rejecting calls to halt sensitive nuclear activities and threatening to block tough inspections if the issue was referred to the Security Council.
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Iran reiterates that it will not give up uranium enrichment on the eve of talks with the European Union.
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VIENNA -- Iran said yesterday that it would press ahead to build a nuclear reactor despite the decision by the UN's nuclear agency against giving technical assistance to the project.
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Iran on Sunday rejected a deadline set by the European Union for Iran to clear itself on the nuclear activities and said it would make no concession on its right ofpeaceful nuclear technology.