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Iran mocks EU foreign policy statements
By EUobserver
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has mocked EU foreign policy as being little more than verbal posturing. "If you want to express regret and issue a statement, you can do it now", he said Wednesday, after Iran announced it would violate an EU-backed nuclear arms control deal. Iran acted after the US first scrapped the accord and EU firms bowed to American pressure on reimposing Iran sanctions.