France says Iran faces crucial choices as nuclear talks extended
CAIRO - France said on Saturday it hoped the extension on nuclear talks between the West and Iran would convince Tehran to make the "indispensable choices" needed to reach a long term deal, but warned that major differences still remained.
"France hopes that this new deadline will allow Iran to make indispensable choices that we are expecting in order to reach a long-term, credible and lasting agreement," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement during a visit to Egypt.
France argues that Iran must drop its demands to have thousands of centrifuges for uranium enrichment if it wants a lasting deal with major powers over its disputed nuclear program.
