(Telegraph-UK) Iran has issued an extraordinary list of demands to Britain and other European countries, telling them to provide advanced nuclear technology, conventional weapons, and a security guarantee against nuclear attack by Israel. Teheran's request, said by British officials to have "gone down very badly," sharply raises the stakes in the crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Iran's move came during crisis talks in Paris this month with senior diplomats from Britain, France, and Germany who were trying to convince Iranian officials to honor an earlier deal to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
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