Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets his people in Bandare Lengeh 800 km (497 miles) south of the capital Tehran yesterday. - REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters):
THE EUROPEAN Union's three biggest powers said yesterday that talks with Iran had reached a dead end and agreed it should be hauled before the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear programme.
"Our talks with Iran have reached a dead end," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after talks in Berlin with his British and French counterparts and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
BECOME INVOLVED
A joint statement from the 'EU3' countries said: "We believe the time has now come for the Security council to become involved."
They said they would call for an extraordinary meeting of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear watchdog, to seek a referral to the council, which has the power to impose sanctions.
Oil prices climbed a dollar to a three-month high as mounting tension over Iran stoked fears of a supply disruption from the world's fourth biggest crude exporter. London Brent crude rose 97 cents to $63.14 by 1544 GMT.
