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Frustrated Iranian officials says the dispute has made them even more determined to pursue every part of the cycle that can produce either reactor fuel or fissile material for a warhead. Iran also says it wants even more than before to be able to build its own nuclear reactors without outside help.

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    March 17, 2007, 2:39 p.m.

    But Russia announced this month that construction would be delayed at least two months because Iran had failed to make monthly payments since January. It said the delay could cause "irreversible" damage to the project.

    Because of the building delay, Russia indefinitely put off the delivery of enriched uranium fuel it had promised to provide Iran in March.

    Iran, which denied falling behind in payments, was furious, convinced Russia was pressuring the country to bend to the U.N.

    "This (Russian decision) shows that there is no such thing as a guarantee to deliver nuclear fuel," top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said last week.

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