Date published: 2005/08/02
The BBC says:
Top EU countries have warned Iran they will cut off talks on the nuclear issue if it goes ahead with plans to resume nuclear activities.
France, Britain and Germany said they would be forced to take "other courses of action" if dialogue failed.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Tehran could be referred to the UN Security Council.
Iran has responded by saying threats are not the solution, and insists it will not cede its "legitimate rights".
A spokesman for Iran's Supreme National Security Council said the decision to resume conversion of uranium at the Isfahan plant was irreversible.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK, as well as EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, made their warning clear in a joint letter to the Iranian authorities on Tuesday.
"Were Iran to resume currently suspended activities, our negotiations would be brought to an end and we would have no option but to pursue other courses of action," the letter said.
"We therefore call upon Iran not to resume suspended activities or take other unilateral steps."
France, Britain and Germany have so far resisted calls by the United States to take Iran to the UN, hoping that the crisis can be defused in talks.
The three EU countries are due to deliver full proposals within a week for nuclear, economic and political co-operation with Iran, provided it ends all nuclear activities.
Typical imperialist intervention by the ex-imperial powers of the EU on behalf of the current imperial power, the US. It is none of the business of any of these countries what Iran does on the nuclear front. The day Britain, France and the US give up all their nuclear capabilities is the day they can start preaching with a straight face about other countries doing so.
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