Iran is to present the international community with a new package of proposals aimed at breaking the diplomatic deadlock over the country's nuclear program, The Guardian reports Thursday.
In an interview with the U.K. daily, Iranian ambassador Rasoul Movahedian said he wasn't permitted to give details before the initiative is presented "before the end of next week" to the five permanent members of the U.N. security council and Germany, the group leading nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
The ambassador said Iran's proposal would address western concerns the rapidly developing nuclear project could be used to make weapons, hinting his government would agree to extensive safeguards required by the International Atomic Energy Agency. But he insisted Iran wouldn't surrender the right to enrich uranium, as the security council has demanded.
U.K. officials said Wednesday they hadn't seen the Iranian proposal and expected it to be a "spoiler" aimed at diverting attention from an offer made last week involving a raft of incentives for Iran to give up uranium enrichment.