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Senior Iranian MP warns Europeans on enrichment demands

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, March 7, IRNA -- A senior parliamentary official warned the 
Europeans Monday to drop asking Iran to permanently suspend uranium 
enrichment or see ongoing nuclear negotiations scrapped. 
"If the Europeans maintain their new language on Iran in the next 
month`s negotiations, it will be our last nuclear negotiations with 
them," the head of parliament`s foreign policy commission, Alaeddin 
Boroujerdi, said. 
"In the last round of negotiations between Iran and the Europeans,
the latter adopted a new language, talking about permanent cessation 
of enrichment," he said, adding `naturally, this is acceptable to the 
Islamic Republic of Iran on no account`. 
Members of the Iranian negotiating team meet with their European 
counterparts in Geneva this week in their latest round of marathon 
talks to reach a breakthrough in the nuclear standoff. 
The Europeans, represented by Britain, France and Germany, are 
pressing Iran to abandon uranium enrichment in return for a package of
incentives. 
Iran agreed in November to suspend uranium enrichment as a 
`confidence-building measure`, but the country insists that it cannot 
be cajoled to sustain the suspension for good. 
On Sunday, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi reiterated Iran`s 
dismissal of challenges to the country`s efforts to master nuclear 
fuel cycle. 
"Access to the technology of nuclear fuel cycle so long as it is 
not aimed at acquiring nuclear weapons while being subject to the 
supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency must not face 
any impediment," he told a forum on nuclear technology held here. 
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