Senior Iranian official: 'West has not accepted Iran's offer yet'

The head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said that Tehran will resume its enrichment activity to produce 20-percent enriched uranium, if the West refuses to reply to Iran's proposal for the nuclear swap deal within one month.

Hossein Ebrahimi said that Iran has voiced its readiness for a staged nuclear swap deal in Japan, Brazil, Turkey or the Kish Island in southern Iran but the West has not yet replied to the proposal.

"Iran proposed a rational way for fulfilling its needs to supply the nuclear fuel required for the Tehran Research Reactor and if they (Western powers) are rational they will give a positive response to the proposal," Mehr news agency quoted Ebrahimi as saying.

He stated that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also agreed with Iran's proposal and has asked the US, France and Russia to act on that.

"Iran has proposed three countries and an island as the location of the nuclear swap but the West has not yet accepted that. So the only option that remains for Iran is to begin production of nuclear fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor after the set deadline," Ebrahimi concluded.

/Press TV/