International Relations Minister Steinitz: 'Tehran is using talks to pave way toward an atomic bomb.'

International Relations Minister Steinitz: 'Tehran is using talks to pave way toward an atomic bomb.'(JPost).The Iranians are using talks with the world powers to “pave their way to a nuclear bomb,” International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz said Saturday, at the conclusion of yet another unsuccessful round of talks between Iran and six world powers.

Steinitz, responsible inside the government for dealing with the international campaign against Iran, said the failure of the talks was “predictable.”

“Israel has already warned that the Iranians are exploiting the talks in order to play for time while making additional progress in enriching uranium for an atomic bomb,” he said. “Israel believes that without a significant and tangible threat, including a short timetable, it is clear that achieving the dismantling of the nuclear project will not be possible.”

Steinitz added that the time has come for the world to take a “more assertive stand and make it unequivocally clear to the Iranians that the negotiations games have run their course.”

His comments came as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Iran and the P5+1 – the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany – remained far apart after ending two days of intensive talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Almaty.

Underlining the lack of substantial progress during the meeting in the Kazakh city, no new negotiations between the two sides appeared to have been scheduled.

“Over two days of talks, we had long and intensive discussions on the issues addressed in our confidencebuilding proposal,” Ashton said at a press conference. “It became clear that our positions remain far apart.”

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