TEHRAN - Iran has decided to halt all dialogue with the EU and has ruled out the early return of the German and Danish ambassadors in retaliation for the EU's latest measures against the Islamic republic. The foreign ministry said it would break off "all talks on human rights, terrorism and arms control", including those on the fatwa on the writer Sal man Rushdie.
"Iran has not detected the necessary goodwill and political independence in the European Union," it said. On Tuesday, EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg banned ministerial visits to or from Iran over Tehran's alleged involvement in the 1992 assassination of four Kurdish dissidents in Berlin.