"No, definitely not," the diplomat from one of the three EU countries that had been negotiating with Iran said about talks resuming on giving the Islamic Republic trade and other benefits in exchange for guarantees Tehran is not trying to make nuclear weapons.
Iran on Sunday formally asked Britain, France and Germany to reopen the stalled talks, Iranian agencies said in Tehran.
Iran’s top nuclear official Ali Larijani has sent the countries’ foreign ministers a letter "insisting on the necessity of negotiations", the official IRNA and the semi-official Mehr agencies reported.
Negotiations between Iran and the so-called EU-3 broke off in August when Iran resumed uranium conversion activities in defiance of international calls to maintain a suspension on work towards making what can be fuel for nuclear power reactors but also the explosive core of atom bombs.