Nuclear Chief Pressures Iran, N. Korea
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Female Iranian students form a human chain around the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization&#39;s headquarters in Tehran, Monday Nov. 1, 2004, in defense of the right of Iran to possess nuclear technology.
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The Security Council finds itself having to grapple simultaneously with two threats to the spread of weapons of mass destruction &amp;#151; Iran&#039;s refusal to stop enriching uranium and North Korea&#039;s nuclear arms program and missile tests.
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International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei will make a rare visit to Iran this week to try to push it into speeding up steps to defuse suspicions about its nuclear program.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged   the world on Monday to avoid confrontation with Iran over its   nuclear goals, after Tehran told him it wanted a negotiated   solution but would not halt uranium enrichment before any   talks.
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The world must show patience over Iran's nuclear programme, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog tells the BBC.
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North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
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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 head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is calling for North Korea to allow international experts into the country to completely verify that a large cloud recently spotted over the country was not caused by a nuclear explosion.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog began a two-day visit early Friday to discuss Iranian compliance with international demands over the country's nuclear program.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants negotiations on Iran's nuclear program but won't halt uranium enrichment ahead of talks, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday after meeting the Iranian leader.
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A senior U.S. official challenged Iran's hard-line president Thursday over his claim that Iranians are immune from further U.N. sanctions, saying such action is in the works unless Tehran meets demands to curb its nuclear program.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday Iran had to meet Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment programs and not only cooperate with U.N. nuclear inspectors.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - The head of the U.N. nuclear  watchdog on Friday urged the United States to join forces with  the EU to persuade Iran to give up atomic processes that could  be used to make weapons.
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Iran said on Sunday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to brief the U.N. Security Council about his country's civilian nuclear plans, which the West says are a covert attempt to make atom bombs.
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MUNICH, Feb. 11 -- Facing the prospect of broader international sanctions, Iran's president and national security chief on Sunday offered to resume negotiations over their country's nuclear program and eased up on some of the contentious  rhetoric of the past, including threats to destroy Israel.
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China called on Iran on Tuesday to step up its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as world powers raise pressure on Tehran to curtain its nuclear program.
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The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to build an atom bomb.