Iran defiant on atomic plans
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology despite the threat of more sanctions, it told France in a letter published on Monday, a day before talks to try to defuse its row with the West.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   said on Thursday Iran would not yield to Western pressure over   its rights, on the day of a U.N. deadline to halt its atomic   work.
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Iran on Tuesday dismissed threats to make it drop its nuclear program and offered to guarantee in negotiations that it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran on Sunday rejected demands by Europe's three major powers to abandon its uranium enrichment program but reasserted its readiness to provide guarantees it will not build a nuclear weapon.
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the day before talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said his country would not beg world powers to allow Iran to have a nuclear program.
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Iran sent mixed messages Thursday about its nuclear agenda: The ruling cleric vowed not to give up the atomic program &amp;#151; calling it more important than oil revenues &amp;#151; but the president said Tehran is ready to negotiate on resolving the standoff.
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Iran reiterates that it will not give up uranium enrichment on the eve of talks with the European Union.
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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&#39;s powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, vowed Wednesday the Islamic republic would resist international efforts to prevent it from mastering advanced nuclear technology.
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Iran Sunday rejected European demands it  abandon sensitive nuclear activities but reiterated its  readiness to provide assurances that its atomic ambitions are  entirely peaceful.
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Iran seems determined to defy the international community and continue to develop a nuclear bomb. That&#39;s no longer in dispute.
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IranÂs president continued defiant pronouncements today, the U.N. deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel.
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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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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the West on Thursday to solve a nuclear standoff through talks but reiterated that Iran would not give up its atomic plans.
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Iran has said there was no reason to suspend its nuclear activities, maintaining a tough line despite talks with the European Union aimed at persuading Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.
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Vienna - Equipped with black-market blueprints of a nuclear bomb and some weapons-grade uranium, Iran is defying the United Nations by secretly continuing supposedly suspended activities as it presses ahead with plans to have atomic arms by next year, an