EU hopes to give in Iran under economic pressure

In the nuclear conflict with Iran obtained from the European Union on a wide blow to the already tottering economy of the Islamic Republic and wants to force the government in Tehran to back down. The EU foreign ministers decided on Monday in Luxembourg comprehensive sanctions on the financial sector, the oil industry and the shipbuilding industry of the country, even to the transportation of foreign currency-making raw material, severely limiting. The sanctions are the toughest package that the community has been tied up in the ongoing conflict for many years. The United States welcomed the sanctions.They strengthened international efforts to put pressure on the Iranian government and to insulate them, said a spokesman for the U.S. President. The EU foreign ministers justified the step with the unwillingness of Iran to make out in the strong European participation in negotiations over its nuclear program concessions. "Iran continues to play on time," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Luxembourg. "We see no sufficient willingness to date to meaningful talks on the nuclear program."The new round of sanctions should therefore emphasize the international calls. The previous measures were effective, "and that the sanctions begin to work, shows that a political diplomatic solution is possible," he said. "Negotiations without sanctions were unsuccessful. So negotiations are sanctions the best strategy that is currently available to us," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague also. After a ban on export of oil, the EU now also prohibited the purchase of Iranian gas and the provision of loans for trade with companies from the Islamic Republic. The failure of the oil business with Europe since July has significant consequences for the Iranian economy. Because no more foreign money coming into the country and the circuit is interrupted with foreign banks, the domestic currency is in free fall for weeks. The population gets the feel of a galloping inflation: Many everyday products are now more expensive by far, and protests against proposed earlier this month by violent. Recently the government in Tehran has asked the citizens to purchase goods from domestic production and to abandon cars or clothes from abroad, to stop the outflow of foreign exchange.

ASHTON IS CONTINUING THE ATOM CONVERSATIONS IN PROSPECT

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton presented a speedy continuation of talks with Iran in view. "I am firmly convinced that there is room for negotiation," she said in Luxembourg. "And I hope that it will soon be possible to make progress in our discussions with Iran." Ashton leads the negotiations on the part of the five veto powers of the UN Security Council - the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France - and Germany. The international community wants to ensure that the government in Tehran fully disclose its nuclear program, thus ensuring not to work on nuclear weapons. In addition, Iranian policy is an obstacle on the way to a solution of the conflict in Syria, because they the most important supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war against his own people is one. Iran insists although always to pursue purely civilian purposes to nuclear power. The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna has, however, presented a few months ago a number of documents that confirmed the suspicions of the international community. Especially the progress of Iran's enrichment of uranium, which is necessary for development of nuclear explosive devices can, in the west alarm bells: Israel, which according to experts, is the only country in the Middle East nuclear threat, with a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. The consequences of such an escalation would be incalculable.