Iran Defies Demand of Nuke Watchdog Agency
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Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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TEHRAN - A defiant Iran yesterday rejected a resolution by the UN atomic watchdog calling for a halt to sensitive nuclear work and threatened to block tough inspections if the issue was referred to the Security Council.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials say the country&#39;s agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog agency doesn&#39;t mean it has given up its right to enrich uranium.
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IRAN announced last week that it had begun enriching uranium, defying a call by the United Nations&#39; International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the country to suspend all such activity.
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Iran has produced a few tons of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated Wednesday, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel &#151; or nuclear weapons.
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VIENNA - Shrugging off an ultimatum from the United Nations nuclear agency, Iran revealed yesterday that it had started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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PARIS, SEPTEMBER 21: Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing that it had begun converting tons of uranium into the gas needed to turn the radioactive element into nuclear fuel.
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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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Iran has pushed ahead with a uranium enrichment program in defiance of a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend it, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported today. The finding appeared likely to trigger U.S. efforts to obtain harsher U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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VIENNA -- Iran said yesterday that it would press ahead to build a nuclear reactor despite the decision by the UN's nuclear agency against giving technical assistance to the project.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tons of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated Wednesday, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel - or nuclear weapons.    The White House, which has been pressuring its allies to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions, again accused Tehran of trying to build nuclear weapons and urged it Wednesday to suspend all enrichment activities...
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VIENNA - Iran&#39;s promise to stop enriching uranium, offered on the weekend to head off threatened sanctions, has the support of the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
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Iran denied an exiled opposition group's  allegations it was secretly seeking material to build an atomic  bomb, a senior official said on Thursday.
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Both the head of the world nuclear watchdog and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected allegations that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief colluded with Iran by omitting critical information from an inspection report over the
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Iran rejected a European demand to stop building a heavy water nuclear reactor in return for a light-water reactor Sunday, hardening Iran's position on a key part of its nuclear facilities that critics claim is part of a weapons program.
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TEHRAN, Iran Sept. 12, 2004 - Iran said Sunday it would not abandon uranium enrichment, rejecting a key demand by three European powers that have threatened to intensify pressure if Tehran does not curb its nuclear program.
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Despite Iran&#39;s defiant attitude, the world&#39;s nuclear watchdog agency is giving the country&#39;s leaders one more chance to resolve doubts over an alleged forbidden weapons program.