The mullahs of Iran keep spitting in Europe’s face, but Europe keeps asking, “Please, sir, may I have another?” Iran Says Won’t Be Made to End Uranium Enrichment.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The European Union cannot force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, Iran’s foreign minister said, dealing a blow to EU efforts to halt the process and ease fears Tehran is seeking a nuclear bomb.

“It is wrong for them (the EU) to think they can, through negotiations, force Iran to stop enrichment,” Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told a conference in Tehran on Tuesday. “Iran will never give up its right to enrichment.”

Diplomats said the EU had agreed on Monday to prepare a package of “carrots and sticks” to get Iran to comply with demands by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to suspend enrichment activities — a process which can be used to make material for atomic bombs. …

Iran says it wants to master the full nuclear fuel cycle, including enrichment, so it does not have to rely on imported fuel for an ambitious atomic energy program. …

Although Iran is not enriching uranium at present, it is preparing a large batch of raw uranium ready for the process and has resumed building enrichment centrifuges in defiance of a previous agreement with Britain, Germany and France.

The IAEA called on Iran last month to halt such activities and said it may be sent to the Security Council if it failed to do so by the next IAEA board meeting on Nov. 25.

Kharrazi said it was up to the EU to make proposals “that safeguard our right to nuclear technology for peaceful ends” while he provided assurances to the world that Tehran is not building atomic weapons.