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BBC News
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US President George W Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear programme, but "all options are on the table".
Mr Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.
"The f..
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BBC News
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Iran's supreme leader has insisted it will continue its nuclear activities for civilian purposes only and will not manufacture nuclear weapons.
"No wise nation would be interested in making a nuclear weapon today. They are against rational thought," sa..
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MSNBC
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A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least three other people and wounding five, Israeli rescue officials said.
Police said there were two attackers, though only one..
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CNN
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said. The statement was the Israeli leader's clearest indication yet that he is will..
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Yahoo News
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Americans are concerned about Iran's nuclear program but split on whether the United States should take military action to shut it down if diplomatic efforts fail, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released on Monday.
Seventy-three percent of those..
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CNN
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Iran's Foreign Ministry has said that tougher U.S. sanctions are "doomed to fail" and accused Washington of adopting confrontational policies amid simmering tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program. Washington imposed stiff sanctions aga..
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CTV
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Former United Nations' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has challenged U.S. President George Bush's assertion that Iran poses a nuclear threat and the world should take pre-emptive action.
Bush has recently renewed calls for a missile defence shield i..
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MSNBC
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The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds..
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MSNBC
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Putin's 'special message'
Iran rejects accusations it is seeking to develop a nuclear bomb, saying it wants nuclear technology for peaceful civilian purposes such as power generation, and has refused to heed U.N. Security Council demands to halt sensit..
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New York Times
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President Bush warned today that Iran would be raising the risk of a “World War III” if it came to possess nuclear weapons.
And he said he believed that Russia still wanted to stop Iran from developing such weapons.
Those comments, made during a..
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CNN
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Iran should be allowed to pursue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during the first visit to the country by a Kremlin leader since 1943. Putin, who is in Tehran to attend a summit of Caspian Sea na..
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MSNBC
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President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Iran must be encouraged to make its nuclear program fully transparent, but also underscored there is no proof it is pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
“We are sharing our partners’ concern about making..
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Google Associated Press
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Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.
John Abizaid, the retired..
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USA Today
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A senior Iranian official warned Saturday that further U.N. sanctions over Tehran's contentious nuclear program could derail ongoing negotiations toward a settlement.
Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear envoy, said after his latest round of talks with Eur..
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Al Jazeera
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The Islamic Republic denies seeking nuclear weapons, saying its programme is a purely civilian one designed to generate electricity.
ElBaradei said the IAEA had seen no evidence that Iran was trying to "weaponise" nuclear material.
However, he a..
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Al Jazeera
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The West cannot stop Tehran from pursuing its nuclear energy programme, he said. "Superpowers cannot prevent us from owning this energy."
The United States, which has a strong military presence in the Gulf, accuses Iran of wanting to produce nuclear w..
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Al Jazeera
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Cheney said: "We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region."
Gulf meetings
On Saturday, he will make a fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh, long a key American ally in the Middle East,..
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BBC News
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The Egyptian authorities have arrested an engineer who works at the country's nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel, state prosecutors said.
Prosecutor Hisham Badawi told a news conference the man had taken reports from his workplace with the aim..
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CNN
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The United States urged North Korea on Sunday to invite international inspectors back and begin shutting down a nuclear reactor, but the top U.S. negotiator repeated that Washington would give Pyongyang a few more days.
Pyongyang apparently missed a de..
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FOX News
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The deadline for North Korea to shut down its main nuclear reactor passed Saturday with no action taken by the communist country, leaving the top U.S. nuclear negotiator to surmise that the momentum had escaped disarmament talks.
Saturday's missed dead..
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