TEHRAN, July 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran has set Sunday as the deadline for the European Union (EU) to present its proposal on the Iranian nuclear issue, local media reported on Sunday.

    Ali Aghamohammadi, chairman of the Information Committee of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), specified that the deadline was 5:00 p.m. local time (12:30 GMT) on Sunday.

    In a Saturday interview with the English-language Tehran Times which was published on Sunday, Aghamohammadi said the EU must present its offer before Monday or it would face Iran's partial resumption of uranium enrichment activities.

    Aghamohammadi also said ambassadors of the European trio of Germany, France and Britain had asked for a delay in the presentation of the proposal.

    "According to the schedule, the European offer has to be presented by Aug. 1, and on the other hand, based on information received, the offer doesn't include the least demands of the Islamic Republic," he said.

    Aghamohammadi was referring to a comprehensive EU proposal on the expected solution of the Iranian nuclear issue, including a package of economic and political incentives, promised by the EU in late May in the latest round of nuclear negotiations.

    Iran has urged the EU to secure its right to continue uranium enrichment in the proposal, which Aghamohammadi termed as the "least demands."

    The EU has been trying but in vain to talk Iran out of its enrichment program, a key procedure on the way to building nuclear reactor.

    Iran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment in November 2004 according to an agreement reached with the EU trio but refused to turn the temporary suspension into a permanent halt.

    It was reported that in a letter to EU officials, Iran said that if the nuclear proposal did not include uranium enrichment, Tehran would reject it.

    Aghamohammadi also said if Iran's expectations were not met, it would resume some of sensitive enrichment activities.

    "The EU still has time to revise its plan to Iran's liking. If they do not do so, Iran will consider doing whatever it deems necessary to protect its national interest," Aghamohamma distressed.

    On Wednesday, outgoing President Mohammad Khatami warned that Tehran was determined to resume the preliminary process of uranium enrichment whatever would emerge in the European proposal.

   "No matter what kind of proposal the EU presents in the coming days, we will resume the activities in the Isfahan facility,"Khatami said, referring to the process of converting nuclear orenick named "yellowcake" to uranium hexafluoride gas which can be used for further enrichment in the Conversion Facility near the central city of Isfahan.

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