Iran 'will stop cooperating' if sanctions imposed
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator today said that Iran would withdraw from all cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog agency if the UN. Security Council imposed sanctions against it.
The statements by Ali Larijani came a day after Iran’s president – facing a Friday UN deadline to stop uranium enrichment – boldly predicted the Security Council would not impose sanctions on Tehran and warned he was thinking about dropping out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Today, Larijani, speaking to an international conference on Iran’s energy programme, said flatly that if the Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran, the country would suspend its co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which oversees compliance with the treaty.
“They (the Western countries on the IAEA board) have to understand they cannot resolve this issue through force,” Larijani said.
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