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TEHRAN-Iran on Wednesday rejected a call by world powers for more nuclear talks with their envoy and said it would in future discuss its uranium enrichment program only with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.Tehran also brushed off a third round of sanctions imposed on it on Monday by the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to suspend enrichment, saying its economy would not be affected.In Vienna, Britain, France and Germany told governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's record of cooperation with IAEA inspectors was "abysmal"-a much harsher judgment than that reached by the watchdog itself.The IAEA wants to learn the true scope of Iran's nuclear program. A February 22 IAEA report said improved Iranian cooperation had helped inspectors resolve all but one question about its past work, but Iran had not explained intelligence on alleged explosives and missile studies applicable to atom bombs.The three EU powers sponsored more extensive Security Council sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic on Monday.They, together with the United States, Russia and China, also said they wanted EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, to try to reopen talks on offers of incentives for Iran to halt its work.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected the idea."From now on, our nuclear issue is with the agency (IAEA) only and we will not negotiate with anyone outside the agency about Iran's nuclear issue," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in his first reaction to new sanctions.
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