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Washington: The six world powers involved in talks on Iran's nuclear programme will hold a conference call on Wednesday to decide their next step, after Tehran failed give a final answer to an incentives package, a US State Department spokesman said on Tuesday.
"If we are not going to receive a clear response, a clear message from them, we are going to have no choice but to pursue additional measures," Gonzalo Gallegos said. Negotiators from United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China "have scheduled a conference call for tomorrow," he said.
"So first we will see what happens with the rest of the day that is left in Europe, and then they will have their call tomorrow. We will see where we go from there." In Iran, a source with Supreme National Security Council said that a message had been handed over yesterday to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who has been leading negotiations on behalf of world powers, but it does not mention a freeze in nuclear activity demanded by Western capitals
Meanwhile, a top official from the UN nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran today, the agency said. But the purpose of the visit by IAEA's deputy director Olli Heinonen was not made clear.
Gaddafispeak: Tehran risks rout
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday warned "arrogant" Iran that it faces military humiliation on the scale of Iraq for its refusal to respond to western powers over a nuclear impasse. "What Iran is doing stems simply from arrogance," Gaddafi said during a visit to Tunisia. "In the event of a decision against Iran, this country will suffer the same outcome as Iraq," he said, according to AP.
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