And I'll huff, and I'll puff....

Does the EU have a negotiation fetish? How many times have we been down this path?

The European Union on Thursday urged Iran to return to the negotiating table to discuss its nuclear program and threatened to take Tehran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions if it did not.

At a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Britain, France and Germany briefed the EU nations on the collapse of negotiations with Tehran and said U.N. intervention could well become the only option.

"We are ready to go to New York if necessary," said EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

The 25-nation EU would give Iran up to the Sept. 19 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna to come back to the negotiating table on some of its atomic activities that can also be used to make nuclear weapons. Tehran insists the program is only for generating electricity.