Iran Hints at Agreeing to Enrichment Freeze
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Iran's top security official suggested  on Monday Tehran may agree to extend its freeze on uranium  enrichment but warned it could not be forced to scrap its  nuclear technology for good.
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President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday it was possible Iran would continue suspension of uranium enrichment and that he was hopeful of a compromise with Europe over its nuclear program.
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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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Iran&#39;s senior nuclear negotiator said Monday that the Islamic republic was ready to discuss an extension of its suspension of uranium enrichment, but repeated a rejection to give up fuel cycle work altogether.
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Iran&#39;s chief negotiator to the United Nations nuclear agency says Tehran is committed to the freeze on uranium enrichment agreed earlier this month.
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Iran and European negotiators have apparently salvaged a deal committing Tehran to freezing all parts of a program that can make nuclear-weapons grade uranium, diplomats said Friday.
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Iran said on Friday it might extend its  partial freeze of uranium enrichment in order to ease Western  fears about its nuclear ambitions but a senior U.S. official  dismissed this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action.
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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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Iran is considering a deal offered by key EU nations that seeks to resolve the stalemate over Tehran&#39;s uranium enrichment programme.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran indicated Monday it may suspend some unspecified nuclear activities after European powers offered a package of incentives in return for Tehran&#39;s agreement to permanently give up uranium enrichment.
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A claim by Iran that it has suspended uranium enrichment appears to open a three-month window for a compromise over what it insists is its peaceful atomic energy programme.
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VIENNA  - Iran and Europe are close to agreement on a freeze on Iranian fuel cycle work that could be used to make nuclear weapons, in a move that could clear the way to a deal with the UN atomic agency that is investigating Tehran, an agency
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to freeze its uranium enrichment activities 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 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 UN Security Council for possible sanctions, local news agencies reported.
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Iran&#39;s answer on Thursday to an EU demand it freeze sensitive nuclear work such as uranium enrichment was described as not too disappointing but not completely definitive by an EU diplomat familiar with the talks.
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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 said Tuesday it was ready for "serious negotiations" on its nuclear program, offering a new formula to resolve a crisis with the West. A semiofficial news agency said the government was unwilling to abandon uranium enrichment &#151; the key U.S. demand.