"The time for threats and intimidation is over," said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by the official news agency IRNA.

The European Union warned that if Iran were to resume currently suspended activities, negotiations underway since last year would be suspended and it would pursue "other courses of action."

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