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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran criticises absent EU as envoys see nuclear site Reuters - 2 hours 3 minutes ago Send IM Story Print By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN - A group of ambassadors to the U.N. atomic watchdog toured an Iranian nuclear site on Saturday, state television reported, and Tehran accused the European Union of missing an historic opportunity by boycotting the visit. Iran said the tour, which China and Russia also snubbed after being discouraged by Western officials, aimed to demonstrate the country's transparency about its atomic programme before talks with major powers set for January 21-22. Tehran invited some ambassadors accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit its nuclear sites. The U.S, British, French and German envoys were not asked along, while the EU declined its invitation, saying United Nations nuclear inspectors should carry out such visits. "The EU lost the historic opportunity for further cooperation with Iran and also visiting its peaceful nuclear activities," Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's IAEA envoy, told state TV before the tour. Analysts said the selective invitation might have been aimed at eroding new harmony among the U.S. and European governments on the one hand and Russia and China on the other in the pending talks, aimed at steps to ease mistrust in Iran's nuclear work. But Iran's top nuclear official and acting Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, denied Tehran was trying to split the P5+1, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States -- plus Germany. "China and Russia have their own political considerations ... The goal of this tour is not to divide the P5+1," he said at the Arak heavy water site in remarks broadcast live on state TV. The envoys, who stay in Iran until Monday, toured the Arak complex. Later they will visit the underground Natanz uranium enrichment site where uranium hexafluoride gas is fed into centrifuges. This is to yield material to fuel power plants which could, if highly enriched, be used for nuclear warheads. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of secretly working to make atomic bombs under cover of a civilian nuclear programme to generate electricity. Iran denies this. Alongside the Non-Aligned Movement of developing nations, the group of seven envoys comprised ambassadors from Egypt, Venezuela, Syria, Algeria, Oman and Cuba. Journalists working for foreign media in Iran were not invited to tour the sites. "WIN-WIN SITUATION" Long-suspended talks between Iran and major powers resumed last month in Geneva. The scheduling of next week's meeting in Istanbul was the only visible result of the Geneva talks. Washington and Israel, Iran's arch-foes, have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to end the stand-off. Since 2006, Iran has ignored offers from the big powers of economic incentives to rein in sensitive nuclear work and open up to unfettered U.N. inspections, expanding enrichment activity in the teeth of increasingly punitive U.N. sanctions. Iran has warned P5+1 that the talks could be the last chance for the West because Tehran's atomic capability was improving. "I hope ... P5+1 countries will use this opportunity to find a face-saving manner to settle this issue they have created," Salehi said. "It will be a win-win situation for everyone." Some diplomats and analysts also said the tour could be a stalling tactic as Iran continued to build its stockpiles of enriched uranium despite the widening sanctions. However, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that sanctions had set back Iran's nuclear programme and given more time to persuade Tehran to change tack. Salehi maintained that sanctions had no impact on the nuclear work, adding that "Iran's uranium enrichment activities are progressing strongly." The U.N. Security Council, United States and the EU have been raising pressure on Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment-related work by imposing tougher sanctions. 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