Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Iran refuses to halt nuclear work

Reuters - 21 February, 2007
Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear programme as a UN deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons. Iran, defiant as a 60-day grace period it had been given to stop enriching uranium for nuclear fuel ran out, again vowed it would not halt its nuclear activities as a precondition for talks on trade benefits offered by six world powers.

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