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Saturday, 26 July 2008

ImageNEW YORK (AFP) — US television network NBC said Friday it will broadcast an interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Tehran, as the country faces a deadline to bow to demands to halt its nuclear program.

The interview from the Iranian capital will be broadcast Monday on the network's evening news program, which starts at 6:30 pm (2230 GMT), with NBC anchor Brian Williams sitting down with Ahmadinejad, NBC announced.

On Wednesday Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would not yield to the two-week deadline set by six world powers to respond to their latest offer to move ahead in the crisis over Tehran's uranium enrichment program, which the powers believe is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.

The six -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany -- have offered to start pre-negotiations during which Tehran would add no more uranium-enriching centrifuges and in return face no further sanctions -- the so-called "freeze-for-freeze" approach.





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Iran's nuclear standoff
  • Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20 - The following is the full text of the most recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general on the level of Iranian cooperation over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

  • Reuters: The UK government accused Iran on Thursday of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog and said this increased its concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme.

  • New York Times: Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

  • Wall Street Journal: United Nations investigators found "significant" traces of uranium used in reactors at the wreckage of a Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year, and Iran is ramping up production of nuclear fuel while denying investigators access, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Wednesday.

  • Reuters: An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the matter is over," U.N. officials said on Wednesday.

  • AFP: Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.

  • Reuters: Iran is aiming to commission its first nuclear power plant in 2009 after years of delays, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

  • Los Angeles Times: World powers this week failed to come up with a unified strategy to press Iran on halting controversial elements of its nuclear program, as a report emerged suggesting the country had made progress in advancing a little-examined feature of its atomic infrastructure.

  • AFP: Russia is against fresh sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme as demanded by some Western powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said on Friday.

  • Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday further contacts with Iran were possible soon to try to resolve the dispute over its nuclear programme.

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