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ANKARA, Jan 2 (Reuters) Turkey said on Monday that newspaper reports which say the United States has asked Ankara for permission to use military bases in Turkey for possible attacks on neighbouring Iran are not connected with reality. profile U.S. visitors to Ankara in recent months have been preparing the ground for U.S. strikes from Turkey against Iran's nuclear facilities.

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Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Jan. Iran threatened on Friday to end all nuclear cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, if its nuclear file was sent to the UN Security Council, as is looking more likely than ever. Britain, France, related activities at its uranium enrichment facility in Natanz.

Cheap Hotel TEHRAN - Iran's defense minister, Vice Adm. Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Iran may resort to pre-emptive strikes to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities.

"We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others, " Asefi told a weekly news conference. Washington says Iran plans to use its nuclear facilities to make atom bombs. Tehran says it merely wants to generate electricity from nuclear power. President Bush wants Iran sent to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear program.

Flight Booking Admiral Shamkhani made his comments in an interview on Al Jazeera television on Wednesday in response to a question about the possibility of an American or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear projects.

range ballistic missile in early August, when Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said the Revolutionary Guards had taken delivery of the missile. The missiles were proudly displayed last month during a military parade in Tehran with banners draped over them saying "we will crush Israel and the U.S." Observers say Iran's latest missile proclamations may be directed at Israel, which has been threatening in recent weeks to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

Travel Agent "We will not sit to wait for what others will do to us," he said. "Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the Americans talk about are not their monopoly. Any nation, if it feels threatened, can resort to that."

Iran broke the agreement earlier this year when it recommenced uranium conversion activities at a nuclear plant in Isfahan, central Iran. Jalali said that Tehran had expected Iran's nuclear file to be closed at earlier meetings of the boards of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in return for having "voluntarily suspended" certain nuclear work. He said that Iran resumed suspended work at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) when it realised that the EU was demanding that Iran continue to suspend all nuclear fuel cycle activities. "That is why we started work at the Isfahan UCF. Why should we negotiate [with the EU] if they plan for us not to carry nuclear fuel cycle work Does suspension of nuclear activities require that we negotiate and take part in dialogues ", he said.

Hotel Chicago There has been speculation here that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear sites, as it struck against Iraq's nuclear facilities at Osirak in 1981.

Online Booking A commander of Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards warned this week that Iran would strike Israel's reactor at Dimona if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear sites.

Travel Health Insurance "If Israel fires one missile at Bushehr atomic power plant, it should permanently forget about the Dimona nuclear center, where it produces and keeps its nuclear weapons," said the commander, Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr.

Hotel Reservation Admiral Shamkhani said Iran was certain that Israel would not carry out such an attack without a green light from the United States. "So you cannot separate the two," he said.

London Hotel Booking On Thursday, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to close its file on charges that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, state-run television reported. This month, the United Nations agency affirmed Iran's claim that the highly enriched uranium found at an Iranian site had been carried in on equipment Iran purchased in the black market.

Discount Travel "If the case is not closed, it intensifies the suspicion about interference of political motives and pressures within the agency," Mr. Kharazi said.

Orlando Hotel The nuclear watchdog agency is scheduled to report its findings on Iran's nuclear activities at a meeting in Vienna starting Sept. 13. The United States has urged the agency to send Iran's case to the United Nations Security Council, which can impose sanctions.

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