Iran remains defiant over nuke program
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Iran's hardline president maintained a defiant tone Saturday ahead of talks with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on the country's suspect nuclear program.
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WASHINGTON/TEHRAN  - The United States on Sunday  played down any suggestion of attacking Iran, which it said may  be years from making an atomic bomb, but Tehran vowed to press  on with a nuclear program it insists is peaceful.
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Iran sent mixed messages Thursday about its nuclear agenda: The ruling cleric vowed not to give up the atomic program &amp;#151; calling it more important than oil revenues &amp;#151; but the president said Tehran is ready to negotiate on resolving the standoff.
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology regardless of threats of more sanctions, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a letter to his French counterpart issued on Monday by an Iranian news agency.
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Iran said Saturday it would continue its nuclear program but provide ``guarantees&#39;&#39; not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington it cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran&#39;s help.
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Iran said Saturday that differences remained between Tehran and European nations over its nuclear programme, but that a swift agreement could still avoid the issue being hauled before the UN Security Council.
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Iran said Sunday its nuclear activities have not halted or slowed down, rejecting reports that it has not significantly expanded its uranium enrichment program this summer as planned.
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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 reiterated Sunday that it won't accept any proposal depriving it of the right to enrich uranium, saying it can't be bullied into giving up its nuclear energy program, state media reported.
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Despite Iran&#39;s defiant attitude, the world&#39;s nuclear watchdog agency is giving the country&#39;s leaders one more chance to resolve doubts over an alleged forbidden weapons program.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday vowed to push ahead with Iran's nuclear program, saying the West is trying to stop it to prevent Iran from emerging as a world power.
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Iran insists it will continue its controversial nuclear programme, ahead of UN talks on possible new sanctions.
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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 says it will not give up its plans to build a heavy-water nuclear reactor.
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Iran will never be prepared to  dismantle its nuclear program entirely but remains committed to  the non-proliferation treaty (NPT), its chief delegate to the  International Atomic Energy Agency said in Beijing on  Wednesday.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Saturday that it would continue its nuclear program but provide &quot;guarantees&quot; not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington that the United States cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran&#39;s help.
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Iran has not accepted a proposal of the European Union (EU) to trade nuclear technology with its uranium enrichment program. &quot;It is just at the initial stage.