TEHRAN, Aug. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran's deadline for the European Union (EU) to present its nuclear proposal will expire at 17:00(1230 GMT) Monday and the country will resume part of its uranium enrichment activities soon, officials said.

    Majlis (parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel told reporters that Iran will make its own decision after the deadline, citing the resumption as one reaction.

    The new deadline was one day later than the previous one.

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

    Adel attributed the delay to some "technical issues" and saying that Tehran will "never accept further procrastination." 

    However, he reiterated that what would be resumed was just the preliminary stage of uranium enrichment and the enrichment itself would be suspended further, stressing that Iran would like to continue negotiations with the EU.

    The Isfahan conversion facility is used to convert uranium or nicknamed "yellowcake" to uranium hexafluoride gas which can beused for further enrichment.

    Iran is pressing the EU to propose a comprehensive proposal onthe expected solution of the Iranian nuclear issue, including a package of economic and political incentives, which the EU in late

    May promised to put forward in two months.

    Tehran also hopes that the EU proposal can secure Iran's right to build its own nuclear reactor.

    Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani said on Sunday that Europe will gradually accept the Islamic Republic's right toget nuclear fuel cycle.

    In the upcoming nuclear proposal, The EU will support Iran'snuclear program and provide Iran with nuclear power plants as well as fuel under the guarantee of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rowhani said.

    However, Rowhani did not reveal when the EU would present its proposal, nor did he touch on whether the EU would permit Iran to continue its enrichment activities, which the EU has been trying but in vain to talk Tehran out of.

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

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