Nuclear Talks With Iran Have Failed, EU Says
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on an approach to reducing fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons, with the EU’s foreign policy chief declaring that the two sides “remain far apart on substance.”
Expectations that the negotiations were making progress rose as an afternoon session was extended into the evening. But comments by Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s head of foreign policy made clear that the two sides failed to make enough headway to qualify the meeting as a success.
“What matters in the end is substance, and … we are still a considerable distance apart,” Ashton told reporters at the end of the two-day talks….