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November 28, 2004
Iran-EU nuclear talks collapse
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesIn Hyscience's Friday post entitled "Iran Gives In On N-Deal, Really?" our final comments were, "The issue over Iran's nuclear ambitions are not over, merely begun. More to come!" Well, more has come only one day later!
From another article from hiPakistan.com comes the news that the Iran-EU nuclear talks have collapsed:
VIENNA:
Informal Iran-EU talks to rescue an agreement on a promised Iranian
freeze of key nuclear fuel-making activities broke off Saturday,
opening the way to possible UN sanctions against Tehran, diplomats
said.
"We have no progress. It is up to the Iranians now to ponder what they will do," a European diplomat close to the talks told AFP. "If there is not be soon a verification of full suspension (of uranium enrichment by Iran), then we'll be in a different ballgame from then on," he added.
The diplomats said France, Britain and Germany have told Iran if they had not reached a final agreement to freeze key parts of its atomic programme by Monday, they would not stop moves to seek sanctions against Tehran. "The Iranians were told that if there's no deal by Monday, they (the EU) would no longer block a referral to the UN Security Council when the (UN nuclear watchdog) reconvenes," a Western diplomat told Reuters. The Security Council has the power to impose economic sanctions.
But the diplomats said neither the EU trio nor Iran wanted the
talks to collapse. They said it would be a big humiliation for the
Europeans and could escalate the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear plans
into an international crisis. Read More...
Posted by Hyscience at November 28, 2004 1:12 AM
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