US says Iran racing to beat uranium deadline
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Iran is racing to produce large amounts of a uranium compound that can be used to make nuclear weapons before a deadline next week to halt all uranium-purification work, US officials said Friday.
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France, Britain and Germany have met a key US demand by drafting a UN nuclear resolution that sets a November deadline for Iran to dispel worries it has a covert atom bomb program, diplomats said on Saturday.
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Iran has promised to meet Monday&#39;s deadline for suspending a uranium enrichment process that could be used for making nuclear weapons -- a freeze that could spare it UN Security Council sanctions.
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The United States has rebuffed pleas  to join a European diplomatic drive to persuade Iran to give up  any ambitions to add nuclear bombs to its arsenal, U.S.  officials and foreign diplomats say.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Iran Thursday to change tactics and freeze uranium enrichment, but Tehran remained defiant ahead of talks on its nuclear programme with the European Union.
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The United States rejected on Friday   Iranian calls for more time to study an offer of incentives to   curb its nuclear activities, insisting Tehran must respond by a   G8 deadline next week.
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A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said.
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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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TEHRAN/WASHINGTON  - Iran, in a renewed challenge  to U.S. and European efforts to prevent it from acquiring a  nuclear bomb, vowed on Wednesday it would never give up its  nuclear program.
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VIENNA - Iranâs reported rush to make uranium gas that could be used to make nuclear weapons raised alarm bells but the week ahead will show if international efforts to rein in Teheranâs atomic ambitions are still on track, diplomats said.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council as Iran faces a deadline to halt its uranium enrichment and he called for a televised debate with President Bush on world issues.
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The United States on Thursday pressed Iran to respond to demands that it comply with the UN nuclear watchdog after three European nations made a last-chance proposal to entice Tehran into compliance.
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The US is seeking to increase economic pressure on Iran, even as its partners in the European Union talk to the Islamic Republic about beginning formal negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme.
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Iran said Sunday it was seriously considering incentives to halt its nuclear program and that the United States and other nations should be patient about getting a response.
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THE US will pursue sanctions against Iran if Tehran does not renounce its quest for nuclear weapons, a top US official said today.
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VIENNA, Austria - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N...
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France, Britain and Germany have met a key U.S. demand by proposing a November deadline for Iran to dispel concern that it has a covert atom bomb program, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters.