France has warned Iran of tougher sanctions if it doesn’t negotiate seriously over its nuclear program.
Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, said the EU should implement an agreed oil embargo from July 1.
Recent talks between Iran and the US, China, Russia, Germany, France, and the UK, also known as the P5+1, left ‘significant gaps’ according to EU foreign policy head, Catherine Ashton.
The P5+1 demand that Iran suspend enrichment of uranium to 20%, close down an underground enrichment facility and export its stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium - measures described by one Western diplomat as "stop, shut and ship".
Iran’s Chief negotiator Saeed Jalili agreed further talks are needed but reiterated Iran’s ‘non-negotiable’ right to enrich uranium.
