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Iran says installing 6,000 enrichment centrifuges

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has started to install 6,000 newcentrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility , PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, an expansion of nuclearwork the West fears is aimed at building bombs.
04 9 2008 2:48AM (...more)

IAEA's ElBaradei to visit Iran this week

VIENNA (Reuters) - International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei will pay a rare visit to Iran this week topush it into speeding up steps to defuse an internationalstandoff over its nuclear program.
01 8 2008 10:27PM (...more)

EU, NATO to keep pressure on Iran despite report

PARIS (Reuters) - Germany and France said on Thursday Iran's nuclear program was still a threat and the search formore U.N. sanctions should go on despite a U.S. intelligencereport that Tehran was no longer trying to build an atomicbomb.
12 11 2007 5:14PM (...more)

Military intervention in Iran would be "catastrophic": Moscow

MOSCOW (AFP) - Any US military intervention in Iran would be a "political error" that would have "catastrophic" consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an interview published Tuesday.
09 18 2007 3:51PM (...more)

France says must prepare for possible war with Iran

PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchnersaid on Sunday his country must prepare for the possibility ofwar against Iran over its nuclear program, but he did notbelieve any such action was imminent.
09 18 2007 1:48PM (...more)

US gives money for monitoring in North Korea - ambassador

VIENNA (AFP) - The United States has provided more than two million dollars (1.5 million euros) for UN nuclear monitoring in North Korea , the US ambassador said Tuesday.
09 12 2007 10:13AM (...more)

ElBaradei to defend Iran plan at IAEA governors meet

VIENNA (Reuters) - The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdogwill tell skeptical nations on its governing board this weekthat Iran's pledge of atomic transparency should be given achance to work, not dismissed as a time-buying ruse.
09 9 2007 8:08PM (...more)

Iran says ready to fill vacuum in Iraq left by U.S.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to fill a vacuum in Iraqcaused by the collapsing power of the United States, itspresident said on Tuesday.
09 3 2007 10:16AM (...more)

Six powers commit to "direct diplomacy" with Iran

VIENNA (Reuters) – The United States and five other powers said Tuesday they were committed to direct talks with Iran to defuse a standoff over its disputed nuclear work, underlining a U.S. turnabout from a policy of confrontation.
03 4 2009 3:42PM (...more)

Iran slows atom plant growth but fuel stockpile jumps

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has slowed the expansion of its uranium enrichment plant but markedly built up a stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel , an 02 22 2009 4:32PM (...more)