Iran digs heels in on uranium enrichment
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The EU cannot force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, Iran&#39;s foreign minister says, apparently slamming the door on European Union efforts to halt the process
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Iran said yesterday it has processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment - a key step in developing atomic weapons - in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
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Shrugging off an ultimatum from the U.N. nuclear agency, Iran revealed Tuesday that it started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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Statements made by Iranian officials on Tuesday confirmed earlier reports that uranium enrichment processes had begun in Iran and that UN pressure would not divert Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program.
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Iran has persisted in enriching uranium despite the threat of U.N. sanctions and a looming deadline to freeze such operations, U.N. and European officials said Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM -- The chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency said yesterday that Iran was on the brink of enriching uranium, a process key to building a nuclear bomb.
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TEHRAN, Sept. 2 -- Iran's president said Sunday that his country is now running 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium for its nuclear program, reaching a goal that could spur efforts to impose new U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic.
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Iran has 100 kg of enriched uranium material in storage, the interior minister said, in comments likely to worry Western powers who fear the Islamic Republic is seeking to build nuclear bombs.
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Iran on Tuesday refused to suspend uranium enrichment and asked the European Union (EU) to take confidence-building moves. &quot;Iran cannot be forced to discontinue enrichment process
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tonnes of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated today, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
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Iran is sending mixed messages on enrichment, and international powers have been slow to join and push sanctions.
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EU countries analyse an Iranian response to EU pressure for it to halt plans to enrich uranium, officials say.
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Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing it would go on converting a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic bombs.
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Iran said Wednesday it has processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment â- key step in developing atomic weapons â -defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic weapons -- in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog.
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Iran is ready to renounce its efforts to assemble centrifuges to enrich uranium in order to avoid being brought before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, diplomats said here Tuesday.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.