Iran on Sunday reiterated that the whole process of its uranium enrichment program must be performed in its own territory and the nuclear talks with the European Union (EU) must be based on this condition.

"Apparently, we will just consider plans which secure Iran's right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purpose within its territory," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters at weekly news briefing.

Asefi stressed that nuclear fuel cycle construction in Iran would be the most important topic for the future negotiations between Iran and the EU.

The spokesman said that so far Tehran had received neither new proposals form Russia nor request of resuming talks from the EU, terming the reported Russian proposal over enrichment abroad as fabricated by media.

Asefi called on the EU to be logical to allow the two sides to reopen the nuclear negotiations within the frameworks of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), pointing out that the talks "should not impose any regulations on Iran and should not aim at wasting time".

As to the recent meeting of IAEA board of governors, Asefi said that the board's decision to postpone the referral of Iran's case to the UN Security Council was "a wise choice".

The IAEA made the decision of postponement on Thursday in order to offer more time for Tehran and the EU to discuss an alleged Russian proposal, which permits Iran to conduct uranium conversion activities on condition that the enrichment stage be moved to Russia, a measure keeping Tehran from obtaining nuclear technology crucial to making atom bombs.

The EU-Iran talks collapsed in August when Iran broke a suspension of uranium conversion, the first step towards making enriched uranium, which can be used to fuel nuclear reactors and as the explosive core of atom bombs.

The IAEA in late September urged Iran to re-suspend the conversion activities or to face a referral of its nuclear case.

The United States accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, a charge rejected by Tehran as politically motivated.

Source: Xinhua