Iran defiant ahead of nuclear talks with Russia
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Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
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Russia's foreign minister is due to hold  talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on  Tuesday, less than a week after Moscow criticized new U.S.  sanctions against the Islamic state over its nuclear work.
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Iran wants talks on its nuclear program but rejects preconditions demanding it freeze the work, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, just ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to back down.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated on Thursday that his country opposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program ahead of a meeting of major powers in London this week.
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Iran's president said on Wednesday his country would not surrender to pressure as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.
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Iran said on Thursday it had agreed a timetable with Russia for the start-up of the Islamic state's first nuclear power plant, local media reported, but an official in Moscow said talks with Tehran were still under way.
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Russia will continue its nuclear energy cooperation with Iran, a senior Russian official said Thursday, despite international concern that Tehran might be trying to develop atomic weapons.
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Iran has met its commitments to Russia over building the Islamic Republic's first nuclear power plant and is ready to go beyond those commitments to assist the work, an Iranian official said on Sunday.
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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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The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant despite the specter of harsher sanctions as it held talks on its atomic work with the European Union.
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Iran must comply with demands from UN nuclear inspectors seeking to verify that the country is not attempting to produce nuclear weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
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TEHRAN : Iran refused to give up on producing enriched uranium in defiance of the West and said dialogue was the only way to resolve the nuclear standoff, on the eve of talks with the EU&#39;s Big Three.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed Iran &quot;would not bend one inch&quot; over its nuclear programme as key talks with the European Union wrapped up in Berlin with no breakthrough.
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Russia is ready to back  sanctions against Iran aimed at preventing it from building  military nuclear potential, Interfax news agency quoted Foreign  Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Friday.
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MOSCOW -- Russia signaled sharp dissatisfaction yesterday with Iran's defiant stance on nuclear issues, declaring that the start-up of a Russian-built nuclear reactor will be delayed and warning that Moscow will not join Tehran "in anti-American games."
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Russia's foreign minister is due to hold talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday, less than a week after Moscow criticized new U.S. sanctions against the Islamic state over its nuclear work.
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Iran expects the United Nations to hold off on new sanctions while Tehran pursues new talks with the UN atomic agency about its disputed nuclear work, a senior Iranian official said Friday.