Tehran dismisses threat of force
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator dismisses threats of force against it, as the UN prepares to make a crucial report.
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TEHRAN, Dec 22: The Iranian military has been ordered to stand ready to defend the country&#39;s nuclear sites in case of attack, army chief General Mohammad Salimi said on Wednesday.
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Iran has said that it is not obliged to accept the United Nation&#39;s demands that it freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment.
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Tehran has ignored deadlines and ultimatums, but as long as it offers a diplomatic way out of the standoff, there'll be little support for sanctions
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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 said Saturday the United States was not in a position to take military action against it and urged Washington and its allies to engage in dialogue.
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Iran said on Sunday there was no  obstacle for French Foreign Minister to visit Tehran to clarify  his comments that raised the specter of war over the country&#39;s  atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to obtain atomic  bomb.
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Iran is ready to provide "guarantees" it won't seek nuclear weapons and warned the United States that success in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan was impossible without Iranian support, the president said Saturday.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refused to say today whether he would to comply with a Security Council demand to withhold arms from Hezbollah.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran is neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States in a television interview ahead of an appearance at Columbia University on Monday
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IRAN&#39;S nuclear program does not present an &quot;imminent threat,&#39;&quot; but Tehran must take measures to reassure the international community about its intentions, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.
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Iran stepped back from its tough rhetoric of recent days on Thursday, saying there was a "not small" chance Tehran would reach a deal with European Union negotiators on its nuclear program.
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Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear program as a U.N. deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Tens of thousands of civil defense volunteers held a rally Wednesday in Iran&#39;s capital city in a show of force designed to deter possible US or Israeli attacks on Iran&#39;s nuclear installations.
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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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Iran on Sunday rejected European demands it halt its pursuit of nuclear technology but reiterated its readiness to provide assurances it would not use that technology to build atomic weapons.
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Iran's parliament speaker has dismissed U.S. accusations that Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Gulf this week as part of a "propaganda campaign" against the Islamic state.