Iran says talks can end atom standoff
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Iran insisted on Saturday an  escalating dispute with the West over its nuclear activity  could be resolved by negotiation as its security chief arrived  in Germany for meetings with European Union leaders.
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Iran still refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment before the start of talks on its nuclear program &#151; a key demand by the six nations locked in a diplomatic standoff with the Islamic republic, officials said Tuesday.
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European Union and Iranian officials will discuss the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday but no breakthrough is expected despite a threat by world powers of further sanctions.
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Iran&#39;s top nuclear negotiator said on Monday talks, not threats, would resolve a standoff over a nuclear program Washington says is a cover for developing atomic weapons.
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Iran said Sunday that Western incentives to halt its nuclear program were an &quot;acceptable basis&quot; for talks, and it is ready for detailed negotiations.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran is open to talks on its nuclear programme.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on   Thursday Iran was open to "new conditions" to resolve its   nuclear dispute with Western powers and believed talks could   produce agreement.
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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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MUNICH, Germany  - Iran insisted on Saturday a dispute with the West over its nuclear program could be resolved by negotiation as its chief nuclear negotiator arrived in Germany for meetings with European officials.
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Iran wants a negotiated solution to its nuclear standoff with world powers but this must recognize an Iranian right to a peaceful nuclear program, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Thursday.
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Iran's chief negotiator met the top U.N. nuclear monitor on Friday ahead of talks with the EU in what could be a last chance to defuse a standoff over Tehran's atomic ambitions and head off tougher U.N. sanctions.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held   talks in Iran on Saturday to seek help in shoring up a   Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire and other issues that diplomats said   would include Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.
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Iran is ready to walk out of nuclear talks with the European Union and face the UN Security Council if the EU insists on demanding Tehran scrap uranium enrichment, a senior Iran security official says.
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A senior Iranian envoy suggested Wednesday that Tehran&#39;s partial freeze on uranium enrichment might come to an end, despite US and European pressure to renounce the process and end fears that his country wants to make nuclear arms.
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Iran said Sunday it would work to settle disputes over its atomic program if its case went back to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency &#151; a stance far from Western demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.
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Iran's supreme leader threatened Wednesday to pull out of negotiations if European countries press their demand for total suspension of uranium enrichment, as a new round of talks ended without an agreement to avert the possible threat of U.N. sanctions.
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Iran vowed that it would &quot;resist&quot; unfair demands to suspend its nuclear program, as talks with the EU on resolving the nuclear stand-off faced new difficulties.