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Iran faces isolation over nuclear ambitions By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor and Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 13/01/2006) Iran faced growing isolation last night after Russia signalled that it would support a campaign by America and Europe to report Teheran to the United Nations for breaching its nuclear obligations. Teheran's defiant decision this week to restart its uranium enrichment programme, coupled with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map", has stoked international fears that Teheran is trying to build atomic bombs. The foreign ministers of France, Britain and Germany Meeting in Berlin, the foreign...