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• EU's Solana 'probably' going to Iran Sunday for nuclear talks

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will probably travel to Tehran on Sunday for talks aimed at convincing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, he told AFP Monday. "The date fixed will probably be the 15th," of June, he said after arriving in the Slovenian...

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• Bush pushes Europe to toughen on Iran

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — US President George W. Bush on Tuesday looked to persuade European leaders to tighten the squeeze on Iran's finances, a central message of what was likely his farewell tour of the continent. Bush, whose term ends in January, will hold talks with Slovenia's president and prime...

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• US to keep up Iran sanctions: Rice

  - 2008-05-22

  PALO ALTO, California AFP — The United States will keep up its sanctions on Iran until it renounces its program of enriching uranium, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. "We will continue to designate entities as we find them trying to use the international financial system for...

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• US security adviser and Israeli FM discuss Iran

  - 2008-04-16

  JERUSALEM, April 16, 2008 AFP — US national security adviser Stephen Hadley and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday held talks about the Middle East peace process and sanctions against Iran, officials said. The two "discussed the necessity of continued international action to increase sanctions" against Iran, a...

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• Iran envoy set for talks with UN nuclear chief

  - 2008-04-12

  TEHRAN AFP — The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation is to travel to Vienna on Monday for talks with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, the official IRNA news agency said. "Gholamreza Aghazadeh will travel to Vienna on Monday for talks with Mohamed ElBaradei,"...

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• Iran minister says no new nuclear talks after sanctions

  - 2008-03-05

  GENEVA AFP — Iran will not hold new talks on its nuclear programme after the imposition of fresh sanctions by the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told AFP on Wednesday. "Negotiations and contradictory actions afterwards are not appropriate. Therefore we believe that for any request for negotiations,...

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• US welcomes UN vote on Iran

  - 2008-03-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States welcomed Monday a UN vote to tighten sanctions on Iran, hoping it will make Tehran stop sensitive nuclear work and enter negotiations with Washington and other powers. The United States is "pleased to see the Security Council has recognized the continuing threat posed...

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• UN vote on new Iran sanctions delayed: diplomat

  - 2008-02-29

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — A Security Council vote on new UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear defiance has been postponed to at least Monday as sponsors seek to enlist broader support, a Western diplomat said Friday. The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the vote, which had...

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• Iran's Khamenei defiant amid nuclear pressure

  - 2008-02-28

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Muslim countries did not need the approval of the United States to record great achievements, amid continued tension over Iran's nuclear drive. "Some Islamic countries think that if the United States does not agree they cannot be successful," Khamenei...

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• Gulf states scrutinising Iran financial dealings: US

  - 2008-02-28

  DUBAI AFP — A US official said on Thursday that the oil-rich Gulf Arab states are scrutinising Iran's financial dealings to avoid serving as a conduit for its nuclear activities and alleged terrorism funding. Stuart Levey, the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, told reporters in the United...

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