Iran has warned the US and the EU that referring it to the UN Security council over its resumption of nuclear activities would be a step towards "the path of confrontation."
| Some of us have been expecting that, though the eventual casus belli will probably be interference in Iraq... |
"I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the US, and particularly Europe," Sirus Nasseri told the BBC's Newsnight program.
| It doesn't seem to have occurred to Sirus that Iran might be miscalculating... |
An emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began in Vienna on Monday after Iran resumed uranium conversion activities - which had been suspended since November - at a plant in Isfahan. "There is no legal base whatsoever to go to the Security Council. If it is, it is by political choosing and it will be a big mistake," said Nasseri who is Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA "What we have been trying to do is see whether it would be possible to continue our enrichment activity through an agreement with Europe," Nasseri said. In Tehran on Tuesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described an EU offer to Iran of trade and other incentives in return for guarantees it was not making nuclear weapons as "an insult".
| Let's see how much longer truculence and vitriol work... |
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