Iran faces more sanctions if it defies world: UK

> PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Iran can't divide the international community and will inevitably face more sanctions if it defies the world over its nuclear program, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday. A vote by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret "should send a very clear warning to Iran that it is not going to be able to divide the international community," Miliband told Reuters in an interview at a Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago. The 25-3 vote was significant because so many countries had decided it was vital to stand up for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Miliband said. "Iran needs to understand the strength of feeling that has gone into the vote today," he said. Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, saying its atomic energy program is only for peaceful purposes. Major powers have followed a strategy of seeking to talk to Iran about its nuclear program while dangling the threat of more sanctions if it does not stop enriching uranium. Miliband said there was "real willingness to treat Iran as a normal country if it behaves like a normal country but also recognition that if it flouts the will of the international community then the sanctions track is inevitable." Russia and China backed Friday's decision but it was unclear if the West could persuade them to support tough sanctions against Iran, something they have long prevented at the Security Council. UK SAYS IRAN ISOLATING ITSELF The vote reflected exasperation with Iran's retreat from an IAEA-brokered draft deal to provide it with fuel for a medical nuclear reactor if it agreed to part with its enriched uranium, which could be turned into bomb material if further refined. The IAEA is the International Atomic Energy Agency, the world's central forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. Miliband said Russian and Chinese support for tougher U.N. sanctions depended on how Iran dealt with the nuclear issue. "At the moment we are just getting a simple two letter answer from Iran to almost every proposal," he said. "'No' they keep on saying, 'no' to the IAEA, 'no' to the proposal that the low-enriched uranium be fabricated outside Iran for medical use within Iran," he said. "That approach of 'no, no, no' from Iran is losing it friends and isolating itself in the international community. I think it's important that Iran understands that there is a good offer on the table and now is the time to take it," he said.  Continued...