Reuters: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied on Tuesday that Russia has a new proposal to curb Iran’s nuclear programs, a day after Washington rejected an idea to allow Tehran atomic research that diplomats said Moscow had floated.

Reuters: Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces “meaningful consequences” if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday.

AP: The White House said Tuesday it opposes allowing Iran to enrich any uranium, and expects the U.N. Security Council to move forward to rebuke Tehran for its disputed nuclear program.

Reuters: Russia has offered to let Iran do some atomic research if it refrains from enriching uranium on an industrial scale for 7 to 9 years, diplomats said on Tuesday, cracking big-power unity on how to stop Tehran getting the bomb.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 07 – A top Ayatollah told theologians of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an exclusively clerical body that designates the country’s all-powerful Supreme Leader, on Tuesday that Iran’s nuclear pursuit “guarantees” the existence of the Islamic Republic.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 07 – Iran’s allies and enemies must know that Iran will not abandon its “rights” to nuclear capabilities, the Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday.

AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the U.N. nuclear agency to compensate Iran for suspending its nuclear activities since 2003, state television reported Tuesday.