Iran rules out key demand before atomic meeting
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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 said on Sunday it was not planning to hold any negotiations with the United States over its nuclear programme and called on the Europeans to avoid using &quot;threatening language&quot; in response to the standoff.
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to keep its uranium enrichment activities frozen 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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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday, ruling out the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran a day before talks with the EU's Javier Solana.
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Iran on Sunday said it was ready tohold negotiations on its nuclear program &quot;without any conditions&quot;,but Tehran could not be forced to do anything, the official IRNAnews agency reported.
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TEHRAN  - Iranian officials said they will not bow to international demands for Tehran to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment activities, saying they were ready for confrontation or negotiation.
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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 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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Just a day before an international deadline, Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons. Diplomats described the about-face as an effort to avoid possible U.N. sanctions.
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TEHRAN, Iran - 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.    Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran already had the technology required for its nuclear fuel cycle, and would not reverse the situation...
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Iran rejects a new European bid to make it abandon nuclear work but insists it is not pursuing atomic weapons.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday that he does not want to set a new deadline for Iran to suspend nuclear activities, which could be used to develop atomic weapons, despite Tehran's defiance of U.N. Security Council demands.
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Iran rejected Sunday a U.N. resolution  calling on it to freeze uranium enrichment activities and  threatened to stop snap checks of its atomic facilities if its  case were sent to the U.N. Security Council.
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Iran says it will not agree to halt uranium enrichment, despite a call by the UN to suspend all such activities.
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Iran has ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment or face the possibility of sanctions.
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Talks between Iran and the European Union on a package of incentives designed to defuse the standoff over Tehran&#039;s atomic program will not be held as scheduled on Wednesday, an Iranian official said.
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Iran's nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Tuesday Iran would not bow to pressure to give up its right to nuclear technology.