Defiant Iran Starts Processing Uranium
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London, Sept. 22 (NNN): A defiant Iran on Tuesday announced that it had resumed producing a uranium gas for enrichment as a nuclear fuel, reports The Guardian.
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VIENNA, Austria - 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.    Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, vowed his country will press ahead with its nuclear program - which he insisted is peaceful - even if it means a rupture with the U.N...
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Iran has begun turning uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a key step in assembling nuclear weapons, The Associated Press reported.
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Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing it has begun 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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Iranian nuclear specialists have begun enriching a new batch of uranium in an apparent act of defiance just days ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline for Tehran to stop such work or face the prospect of economic sanctions, officials in Washington and European capitals who have been monitoring...
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A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said.
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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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TEHRAN (Agencies) -- Iran began processing uranium just more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
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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 on Tuesday defied international calls for it to stop enriching uranium, a day before a U.N. deadline for it to back down.
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Europe warned on Tuesday that it would not tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons after the Islamic republic defied the United Nations by announcing it had begun 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 has begun enriching a new batch   of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to   suspend atomic fuel work or face possible sanction, The   Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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Iran vowed defiantly on Thursday not to   bow to Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was   expected to report Tehran had failed to meet a deadline to halt   work which the West fears could help it build a nuclear bomb.
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Facing fierce international pressure, Iran backed off yesterday from its demand to be allowed to continue operating some uranium enrichment
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Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it has started converting uranium into the gas needed for enrichment purposes, a process that has sparked renewed concerns about a possible bomb program.
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Iran vowed on Wednesday to press ahead with its nuclear program, in defiance of a U.N. deadline to freeze uranium enrichment, but offered to guarantee it would not try to develop atomic weapons.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had processed several tons of raw "yellowcake" uranium to prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic weapons -- in defiance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.