Iran threatens to break negotiations with EU

Daily Times:

Iran threatened Saturday the possibility that it might break off negotiations with the European Union over its sensitive nuclear activities if the talks do not bear fruit.

“We told the Europeans that, if the negotiations did not bear the expected results, their continuation was useless,” Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi was quoted by state television as saying.

He was speaking in New York on the sidelines of the UN conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Kharazi pointed to an agreement reached in November with the Europeans, adding that “if the negotiations did not bear any results at the end of three months, it would be stopped, and today we are at this stage.”

“Our threats in connection with enrichment are not hollow and we will soon make a decision,” Kharazi said. Iran is under pressure from the international community to give up uranium enrichment, which is alarmed by years of concealment of its activity by Tehran. Iran’s enrichment activity is at the heart of debates in the New York conference, which opened on Monday. ...