WASHINGTON — Iran will continue to defy demands to prove its nuclear program is peaceful unless it is hit with a new round of U.N. sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.
Speaking at a news conference with new British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Clinton said negotiators from Germany and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council were making progress every day on a draft sanctions resolution.
She said Iran’s intransigence on the nuclear issue is the strongest argument for a fourth round of sanctions. “We believe that the case is being made perhaps most effectively by the Iranians themselves,” she said.