Iran says uranium ban illegal, dismisses sanctions
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Iran yesterday denounced as &quot;illegal&quot; demands from the UN atomic-watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used for nuclear weapons.
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Iran announced Monday it has suspended uranium enrichment, and the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said he believed all Iran&#39;s enrichment activities have stopped, the central part of an agreement with Europe designed to head off possible UN
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Iran has suspended its uranium enrichment programs, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said here Monday.
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Just a day before an international deadline, Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons. Diplomats described the about-face as an effort to avoid possible U.N. sanctions.
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Iran has rejected a resolution from the UN nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the UN Security Council.
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Iran is making substantial advances in uranium enrichment in defiance of world demands, U.N. monitors said on Wednesday, opening the way to harsher sanctions against Tehran over fears it is seeking atom bombs.
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Iran stressed Sunday its commitment to voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment, but warned against hauling Tehran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart U.S. efforts to report the Islamic state to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran on Sunday rejected European demands that it halt all uranium enrichment activities and described a proposal aimed at ending Tehran&#39;s nuclear standoff with the international community as &quot;unbalanced.
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IRAN insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union to freeze its uranium enrichment programme - a move diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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Iran ruled out a total suspension of uranium enrichment Wednesday as a second round of talks with European negotiators failed to produce an agreement aimed at avoiding
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VIENNA -- Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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President Ahmadinejad said today that U.N. sanctions will not deter Iran from pursuing its nuclear program.
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IRAN yesterday froze sensitive nuclear work, including uranium enrichment, in a move likely to thwart United States efforts to report the Islamic state to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran has said that it is not obliged to accept the United Nation&#39;s demands that it freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment.
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Iran on Monday suspended sensitive  nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move  likely to thwart U.S. efforts to report the Islamic Republic to  the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
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VIENNA Iran refused on Thursday to abandon plans to operate uranium enrichment equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons, European and Iranian officials said.