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More than 100 non-aligned nations backed Iran’s right to peaceful uses of nuclear power on Wednesday, an endorsement sought by Tehran in its standoff with the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment. Senior Iranian officials depicted the support, coming from a high-level conference of the 120-nation Nonaligned Movement, as deflating claims by the U.S. and its allies that most of the international community wanted Iran to stop enrichment. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran’s top representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the conference sends a “strong positive signal that the only way is negotiation and dialogue” over the nuclear standoff. “