Visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here on Tuesday that Russia made no " compromise" proposal that would allow Iran to enrich uranium in limited scale.

"There is no compromise," Lavrov said following talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Lavrov said that all Russian contacts with Iran, with the EU-3, with the United States and others, including the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), "were about finding a way to implement the February decision by the board of governors of the IAEA."

For her part, Rice said: "The United States has been very clear that enrichment and reprocessing on Iranian soil is not acceptable because of the proliferation risk."

According to a report by the New York Times on Tuesday, Russia proposed that Iran would temporarily suspend all uranium enrichment activities at its facility at Natanz but then be allowed to do what Russia describes as "limited research activities" in Iran's uranium enrichment program.

The proposal is a reversal of its previous stance and seemed motivated by its determination to protect Iran from judgment by the United Nations Security Council, the report said.

The reports of the proposal prompted Rice to call Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA director general, and said "the United States cannot support this."

The United States has insisted on referring Iran's nuclear issue to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.

Source: Xinhua