Iran Defies Demand of Nuke Watchdog Agency
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Shrugging off an ultimatum from the U.N. nuclear agency, Iran revealed Tuesday that it started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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Iran backed down on a demand to exempt sensitive equipment from a freeze on uranium enrichment that can make atomic weapons, in a move that should save it from possible UN sanctions, diplomats said.
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Iran&#39;s promise to suspend activities related to enriching uranium appears to meet demands from the UN atomic watchdog agency, but some suspicions remain about the nature of nearly two decades of clandestine nuclear programs, an agency report said Monday.
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a clear rejection of the UN atomic watchdog&#39;s demand that Iran halt such activities. Uranium enrichment can be used both to produce nuclear power and to make atomic bombs.
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TEHRAN, Iran - 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.    Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran already has the technology required to develop nuclear fuel and would not reverse the situation...
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tonnes of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated today, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
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Tehran/Vianna, Sept. 19 (NNN): Iran on Sunday rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) call to suspend of all its nuclear activities, saying that it will not agree to halt uranium enrichment.
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Russia, a nuclear partner of Iran, on Monday backed the UN atomic watchdog in its call on Tehran to halt uranium enrichment and urged Iran to heed the demand instead of rejecting it, the Reuters news agency reports.
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Iran vowed on Thursday not to bow to   Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was expected to   report Tehran had defied a deadline to halt work which the West   fears could help it build nuclear bombs.
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Iran has not diverted any of the nuclear  materials it declared to the U.N. nuclear watchdog to any  prohibited activities, the watchdog said on Monday, but it  could not rule out the existence of covert nuclear work.
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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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The U.N. nuclear agency declared Iran   had failed to halt nuclear work by a Thursday deadline, and   Tehran defied the threat of sanctions by vowing never to   abandon a program the West fears could give it atom bombs.
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IRAN is defying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while engaging in an &quot;unrelenting push toward nuclear weapons capability&quot;, the US said today.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Iran on Friday to heed the demands of the UN nuclear watchdog after Tehran defied the United Nations by going ahead with its uranium enrichment programme.
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Iran said yesterday it has processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment - a key step in developing atomic weapons - in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
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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.
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Defying a U.N., Iran began enriching uranium for what it says is a power project, but the gas could be refined to use for bombs.