[Bloomberg] Henry Meyer - Iran said it won't bow to international pressure to meet an end-of-September deadline for holding talks on its nuclear program. "The Iranian nation favors interaction and dialogue but will not surrender to pressure," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that the threat of sanctions won't sway Iran. "No one can impose sanctions on Iran anymore," he said. It remains unlikely that Iran is willing to make the necessary compromises on at least limiting its enrichment of uranium, said Cliff Kupchan, a senior analyst at Eurasia Group in New York.
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