VIENNA, Austria - Talks meant to give Tehran a last chance to avoid U.N. sanctions were in jeopardy on Wednesday, with diplomats and European officials saying Iran's chief nuclear negotiator had still not confirmed if he would meet with the European Union's foreign policy chief.
The talks had been tentatively set for Wednesday in Vienna as a final attempt to see if there was common ground to start negotiations between six world powers and Iran, despite Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand that it freeze uranium enrichment.
But while the EU's Javier Solana was ready to fly to the Austrian capital at short notice, the diplomats and officials said Tehran had yet to say if nuclear envoy would come. They requested anonymity because they were sharing confidential information.
The council deadline on an enrichment moratorium ran out Thursday. Still, the five permanent council members and Germany had decided to postpone work on possible sanctions against Tehran until the outcome of any talks between Solana and Larijani.
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