Iran has hit out at talk of more EU sanctions being applied
against it as "irresponsible," singling out Britain for raising the
prospect it claimed went against U.N. nuclear watchdog regulations.
Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a
statement relayed by state broadcaster IRIB calling Western sanctions
"ineffective" and "obsolete." He was reacting to comments
made by EU foreign ministers, meeting in Cyprus who said a "growing
consensus" was forming to impose new punitive measures on Iran to pressure
it further to make concessions on its disputed nuclear program. British Foreign
Secretary William Hague said after the meeting that existing EU sanctions were
having "a serious impact" but it was "necessary to increase the
pressure on Iran, to intensify sanctions." Hague's German and French
counterparts echoed that position, underlining EU frustration that talks this
year between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group -- Britain, France, Germany, the
United States, Russia and China -- had gone nowhere.
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