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Tuesday, 19 October 2004 |
 Xinhuanet: Iran said on Monday that it was well-prepared for "any scenario" over nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported. "I believes that Iran's case will not be referred to the UN Security Council. But, Iran is also well-prepared beforehand for any scenario in this respect," government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh was quoted as saying.
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Monday, 18 October 2004 |
 Associated Press: Iran won't permit its diplomats to negotiate with European nations over its nuclear program if the goal of talks is to deprive Iran of the right to enrich uranium, Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Monday. |
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Monday, 18 October 2004 |
 Financial Times: Iranian officials reacted cautiously to plans
by Britain, France and Germany for a new incentive package to win Tehran's agreement to complete suspension of its
nuclear programme before a meeting on November 25 of the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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Sunday, 17 October 2004 |
 AP: 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.
"Tehran will accept only proposals that meet Iran's national interests and its legitimate right to the peaceful use of nuclear technology," state-run television quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying. |
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Sunday, 17 October 2004 |
 BBC: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Iran must take more steps to dispel concern about its nuclear programme, Russian media have reported. He said Iran should ratify a protocol signed last year with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and end its uranium enrichment programme. Iran says it will reject any proposal for a complete halt to such activities. |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 Voice of America: Iran says it will reject any proposal to end its work on uranium enrichment, a process that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Hossein Mousavian, a senior Iranian official involved in the nuclear negotiations, has told state television his country will not accept any plan that requires it to drop what he calls "its legitimate right" to enrich uranium to make fuel. |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran says it will reject any proposal to halt uranium enrichment, a step European Union diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is seeking atomic weapons.
EU diplomats have said they are seeking U.S. and Russian support for a deal that would ask Iran to give up uranium enrichment in return for technical and economic assistance. |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
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AFP: Iran will reject any European proposal for a complete cessation of its work on the nuclear fuel cycle, but is willing to consider further "confidence-building" measures and extending a suspension of uranium enrichment, a top Iranian official told AFP Saturday. |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
AFP: Envoys from the Group of Eight industrialized nations met here Friday to discuss ways of making Iran give up its alleged nuclear weapons program but reached no decisions on a European proposal to offer Tehran incentives to do so, a
senior US official said.
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 Reuters: European powers will offer Iran a deal next week in a final bid to persuade the Islamic republic to end its suspected arms-related nuclear programmes or face possible sanctions, the United States says. The announcement on Friday came after a meeting of the Group of Eight industrial powers in Washington where Britain, France and Germany presented a package of "carrots and sticks" ... |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 The Washington Times: The Bush administration yesterday refused to back away from its demand that Iran be referred to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program next month, even as European allies said they will offer Tehran a deal next week.
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 New York Times: The United States reached an informal agreement Friday to let Britain, France and Germany offer a deal to Iran next week in which Tehran would immediately suspend its nuclear fuel enrichment program in return for a discussion on future economic benefits and other incentives, European diplomats said.
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 Washington Post: The United States yesterday effectively and reluctantly agreed to allow three European nations to launch a final diplomatic initiative aimed at persuading Iran to accept a plan that would block it from developing a nuclear weapon,
U.S. and European officials said. |
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Saturday, 16 October 2004 |
 The Guardian: Senior US and European officials were locked
in last-ditch negotiations in Washington last night to defuse
the crisis over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Ahead of a crucial meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna next month, the EU troika of Britain, France and Germany has drawn up a package of sweeteners in the hope of persuading Tehran to abandon its advanced uranium enrichment programme. |
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Friday, 15 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran might be willing to give up its uranium
enrichment capabilities but it wants many things in return -- above all a guarantee that no one will try to topple the Islamic regime, diplomats and analysts say. North Korea has demanded similar security assurances from Washington, which listed both Tehran and Pyongyang as members of an "axis of evil," in exchange for relinquishing its atom bomb program. Iran's nuclear ambitions will be discussed at a meeting of senior officials from the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations in Washington on Friday. |
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Friday, 15 October 2004 |
Washington Post: After weeks of behind-the-scenes
diplomacy, the United States will meet here today with the world's wealthiest countries to determine a strategy for giving Iran one last chance to abandon its alleged nuclear arms program or face new international pressures. Both Democrats and Republicans increasingly believe that Iran will be the next big foreign policy flash point ... |
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Thursday, 14 October 2004 |
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Reuters: Russia and Iran said Thursday they had finished construction of an atomic power plant in the Islamic Republic -- a project the United States fears Tehran could use to make nuclear arms. Diplomats in Moscow said the announcement, made after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Iran, reflected Russia's readiness to press ahead with the project in return for Tehran's increased cooperation with the U.N. ... |
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Thursday, 14 October 2004 |
 AFP: A top Iranian lawmaker said here Thursday that Iran would bar international nuclear inspections in its country if debate on its nuclear program is taken up in the UN Security Council.
If the issue goes to the Security Council "there will be no place for any kind of inspections, no continuation of our openness" with IAEA inspectors, Aladdin Broujerdi ... |
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Thursday, 14 October 2004 |
 AP: The U.S. administration will take up strategy for United Nations sanctions against Iran at a meeting tomorrow of
senior officials from eight nations. All the G8 countries - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia - will have senior officials at the ... |
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Wednesday, 13 October 2004 |
 Voice of America: The Group of Eight industrialized nations is set to discuss Iran's nuclear program Friday In Washington. A top U.S. official says Iran can avoid possible sanctions if it cooperates with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Officials from the Group of Eight, including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Undersecretary of State John Bolton, say they will explore a common strategy on Iran just days after Tehran rejected European efforts to halt the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment program. |
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Wednesday, 13 October 2004 |
 Xinhuanet: Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, speaker of Iran's Majlis (parliament) said Wednesday that Iran is determined to make further progress in the field of nuclear technology, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"The Iranian youth are determined to create further progress in the field of nuclear technology in the coming years," Adel was quoted as saying at a ceremony of the new academic year of the University of Imam Hossein, which is affiliated to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. |
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Wednesday, 13 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran should be "brought to account" on its nuclear program, but Washington is open to ideas other than taking it
to the U.N. Security Council for sanctions, U.S. Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
 Reuters: The EU cannot force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, Iran's foreign minister says, apparently slamming the door on European Union efforts to halt the process and ease fears Tehran is seeking a nuclear bomb. "It is wrong for them (the EU) to think they can, through negotiations, force Iran to stop enrichment," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told a conference in Tehran on Tuesday. "Iran will never give up its right to enrichment." |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
 DPA: Iran on Tuesday said it would not negotiate with the European Union over a halt to uranium enrichment, just as an inspection team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog arrived in the country.
"We welcome negotiations with the EU but the talks should
just be focused on Irans legitimate right to have peaceful nuclear technology and not on stopping uranium enrichment," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told state-run television. |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Russia urged Iran on Sunday to heed the U.N.
nuclear watchdog's call for it to suspend sensitive nuclear
work that could be used to make atomic bomb material.
Iran, in turn, said it was ready to give whatever assurances were required to show that it will not use nuclear technology to make atomic weapons. |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
 AP: Iran's foreign minister made Europe an offer Tuesday: recognize our right to enrich uranium and we will guarantee never to produce nuclear bombs.
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi put the offer in a speech to an energy conference in Tehran about six weeks before his government has to show the UN nuclear watchdog that it has ceased enrichment and all related activities. Iran has already rejected the demand of the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
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BBC: Russia has urged Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme in order to avoid possible sanctions from the UN Security Council. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would continue nuclear co-operation with Tehran if it complies with the UN nuclear agency (IAEA). In its meeting last month, the IAEA called on Iran to suspend its nuclear fuel cycle. |
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Monday, 11 October 2004 |
AFP: The European Union reiterated Monday its willingness to renew dialogue with Iran on a host of issues, including trade,
if it suspends uranium enrichment activities.
"If Iran on its side is willing to suspend all activities in the field of enrichment for peaceful purposes, we are willing to continue with the dialogue," said Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot. |
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Friday, 08 October 2004 |
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Reuters: Iran should freeze all its uranium enrichment-related activities by a November 25 board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said on Friday. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said Thursday he hoped Iran would fully suspend
its uranium enrichment-related activities and that his agency was working with it to do so. Iran said 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. watchdog. |
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