France's foreign minister said on Saturday that his country wanted an agreement over Iran's nuclear programme that was sufficiently robust to guarantee that Tehran could not acquire an atomic bomb.
"France wants an agreement, but a robust one that really guarantees that Iran can have access to civilian nuclear power, but not the atomic bomb," Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio.
Iran and six world powers suspended negotiations on a nuclear agreement on Friday and are set to meet again next week to break a deadlock over sensitive atomic research and lifting
of sanctions. France has been demanding more stringent restrictions on the Iranians under any deal than the other Western delegations, officials said.
