Polish military intervention in Iran 'not being considered'

Wreckage of car bomb which killed Iranian scientist, Wednesday: photo - EPA

“If there is conflict with Iran, Poland will not be engaged, actively, and the possibility of sending our troops there is not even being considered,” Roman Kozniar told the Polska the Times daily.

Kozniar, who advises Poland's president on foreign affairs, added that “any attempt to escalate the conflict would just be suicidal for [Iran]”.

EU's foreign ministers will meet later this month to agree an embargo on Iran's oil exports in retaliation for what they believe to be the Iranian government's continued development of nuclear weapons.

The US confirmed this week that the Iranians are producing 20 percent enriched uranium, a major step to producing nuclear weapons.

Tehran has maintained that it is only interested in developing a civilian nuclear power programme and not a military one.

On Thursday, Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said, while on a visit to Ankara, Turkey, that his government would be willing to restart talks with permanent members of the UN security council on the nuclear issue.

Meanwhile, Iran's top cleric blamed Mossad and the CIA for being behind the murder of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who died when a bomb exploded under his car on Wednesday.

Roshan is the third Iranian nuclear scientist to die this way in the last two years.

Roshan's death shows that "the global arrogance spearheaded by the U.S. and Zionism has reached a deadlock in confrontation with the determined, devout and progressive nation of Islamic Iran," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is quoted by Press TV as saying. (pg)