SpaceWar.com reports: “France, Germany, and the United Kingdom will not hesitate to reimpose sanctions against Tehran if European security is threatened by Iran’s nuclear program, the French foreign minister said at the United Nations on Monday.

‘Iran has crossed all the boundaries it had committed to respect,’ and the country ‘is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons,’ Jean-Noel Barrot told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the Security Council on non-proliferation, which he had convened.

‘There is no military solution to the Iranian nuclear problem. There is a diplomatic path to achieve it, but it is a narrow road,’ he added.

Barrot voiced hope that the ongoing negotiations between Tehran and Washington on the issue would bear fruit, adding that France, Germany, and the United Kingdom were in ‘close contact’ on the issue with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The highest-level talks in years between long-time foes Washington and Tehran are targeting a new deal that would stop Iran developing nuclear weapons — an objective Tehran denies pursuing — in return for relief from sanctions…”