09/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Austria is opposed to sanctions against Iran that come from the EU alone, declared the Austrian foreign affairs minister, Ursula Plassnik, to the Handelsblatt newspaper on 9 October. France proposed that the Union impose its own sanctions on Tehran if the UN Security Council did not reach an agreement on a third series of economic penalties, in response to Iran's refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment programme. Plassnik stressed that “We respect UN...