West sets deadline for Iran to freeze uranium enrichment
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Four western countries set the scene yesterday for a showdown with Iran by demanding that it freeze its uranium enrichment activities immediately.
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Whether Iran is fulfilling its commitment to freeze all aspects of a process that can be used to make atomic arms &#151; and what to do if it isn't &#151; is expected to top the agenda of a key meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
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Last weekend, the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency called on Teheran to freeze its efforts to produce nuclear fuel, since this will enable Iran to come within days of having a nuclear arsenal.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 -- With Iran still resisting a freeze on its nuclear activities, the United States and five partners have decided to set yet another deadline in hopes that Iran will finally agree to terms paving the way for substantive talks on its nuclear program.
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Iran will announce its final decision  later on Sunday on an EU proposal that it freeze sensitive  nuclear work in return for avoiding referral to the U.N.  Security Council for possible sanctions, local news agencies  reported.
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Iran has promised to meet Monday&#39;s deadline and suspend a uranium enrichment process that could be used for making nuclear weapons.
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to keep its uranium enrichment activities frozen 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 has agreed to avoid setting a firm deadline for talks with the European Union on its nuclear programme and could maintain its freeze of uranium enrichment activities until at least mid-year.
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IranÂs president continued defiant pronouncements today, the U.N. deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel.
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In a sign of cooperation, Iran pledged to meet its deadline and suspend its uranium enrichment activities on Monday.
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A divided U.N. nuclear watchdog has postponed until Thursday a ruling on Iran's bid for aid for a project the West fears could yield bomb-grade plutonium, but is still likely to block such assistance, diplomats said.
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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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The British government yesterday set a November ultimatum for Iran to suspend all activities linked to production of a nuclear bomb - a deadline that effectively marks the failure of more than a year of negotiations between Tehran and the European troika
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Iran will honor its pledge to the European Union and U.N. nuclear watchdog to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities, Tehran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday.
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Iran will continue preparing raw  "yellowcake" uranium for enrichment, a process that can be used  to make nuclear weapons, until the end of February, despite a  recent pledge to freeze all such activity, diplomats said.
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Iran has promised to suspend its nuclear enrichment program by Monday&#39;s deadline, the BBC reported. The head of Iran&#39;s nuclear energy organization said work would stop at two
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Iran is prepared to keep uranium  enrichment activities frozen as long as nuclear negotiations  continue with the EU, but those talks should not last too long,  Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said Tuesday.