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Iran, EU Express Hope for Nuclear Agreement
Iranian and European Union leaders said today they were hopeful the ongoing negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program would lead to a settlement, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Feb. 14). Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said Iran must find a “mechanism” to reassure the European body that its nuclear program is not arms-related and “we are hopeful it would lead to a very fruitful agreement.” Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said it was essential for “Iran to step away from direct access to nuclear weapons.” Kharazi is scheduled to arrive in Luxembourg today for talks, AFP reported. “The discussions will broach the European Union’s relations with Iran, bilateral relations as well as recent negotiations in Geneva on Tehran’s nuclear program,” Luxembourg announced in a statement (Agence France-Presse/SpaceWar.com, Feb. 15). Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Hassan Rohani said yesterday that he hoped the EU would resist U.S. pressure in the negotiations, Iranian state media reported. “The Americans, based on their record, do not want issues affecting them such as the current (nuclear) issue to be settled by others and can therefore be expected to put Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities in a bad light as well as put pressure on Europe to toe its line,” he said (IRNA/BBC Monitoring, Feb. 15).
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