Kouchner: West must seek new sanctions on Iran

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says there has remained “no other choice” but imposing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

“The defiant attitude adopted by the Iranian government now leaves us no other choice: we have to seek new sanctions,” Kouchner told the French Senate on Tuesday.

“We will continue to seek dialogue but what responses have we got so far? Nothing tangible,” AFP quoted France’s top diplomat as saying.

Kouchner also claimed that Tehran’s nuclear program did not have “credible” goals.

The French foreign minister’s allegations against Iran’s nuclear program comes while the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have declared that they have found no evidence of any diversion of nuclear materials from civilian to military applications by Iran.