Iran would stop enrichment if it is assured of nuclear fuel supplies for a research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will hold off talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme until the end of August as a way to "discipline" the West.
The UN imposed a new slate of sanctions on Iran on Wednesday in an attempt to force it to comply with demands over its nuclear programme.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday his country would "definitely continue" its nuclear programme despite Israeli threats.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday he backed Iran’s nuclear programme.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Zimbabwe on Thursday to sign a raft of trade and cooperation agreements.
Iran’s president on Wednesday warned US counterpart Barack Obama of a "tooth-breaking" response, as he condemned Washington’s new nuclear policy.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to impose new sanctions on Iran.
Iran has declared it will begin enriching its uranium stockpile to a higher level, further raising fears over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
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/ 4 February 2010
US and key allies urge actions as well as words in a wary response to Iran’s surprise U-turn on proposals to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
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/ 31 December 2009
A divided Iran enters 2010 after a year marked by recurring deadly protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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/ 23 December 2009
Iran’s rulers are tensing for a new trial of strength with protesters on Sunday.
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/ 2 December 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Wednesday as ”illegal” an IAEA resolution over the country’s disputed nuclear activities, state television reported.
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/ 2 December 2009
A newspaper editor has been sentenced to nine years in jail for fomenting unrest after June’s disputed elections, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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/ 24 November 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brasilia on Monday seeking support for his controversial nuclear programme.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that some countries had offered to provide Iran with uranium enriched to 20% for use as nuclear reactor fuel.
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/ 29 September 2009
Top diplomats from the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany will meet Iran’s nuclear negotiator on Thursday in Geneva.
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/ 28 September 2009
Iran’s defence minister warned Israel on Monday against launching any attack on the country, saying it would speed up the Jewish state’s own demise.
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/ 26 September 2009
Bolstered by other world powers, US President Barack Obama demanded on Friday that Iran come clean about its nuclear programme or face sanctions.
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/ 24 September 2009
The US and other major powers on Wednesday told Iran to prepare a ”serious response” by October 1 to demands it halt its nuclear programme.
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/ 20 September 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to New York this week for the UN General Assembly, his disputed re-election still sparking violent protests.
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/ 18 September 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday the Holocaust was a ”lie” and a pretext to create a Jewish state that Iranians had a religious duty to confront.
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/ 9 September 2009
An ally of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has been detained, reformist websites said.
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/ 7 September 2009
Iran will continue its disputed nuclear work and will never negotiate on its ”obvious” rights, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
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/ 3 September 2009
Iran’s Parliament approved most of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Cabinet ministers, including the first woman, on Thursday.
Iran’s embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appealed to Parliament on Sunday to approve his new Cabinet.
Women’s rights activists say they aren’t fooled by Ahmadinejad’s nomination of the first female Cabinet ministers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The manager of a Tehran cemetery denied it carried out secret burials of people who died in post-election unrest, according to a report on Monday.
Iran’s president faces a tough battle to win Parliament’s approval for his Cabinet after lawmakers indicated they would reject several ministers.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to unveil his Cabinet on Wednesday, facing a dogged opposition and challenges from within his own support base.
The West must be held to account for stoking Iran’s post-election unrest, the president said on Sunday, as a third mass trial got under way.
Iran put dozens of moderates and a French citizen on trial on Saturday for taking part in unrest after a disputed June presidential vote.