WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States said on Friday that it supports a proposal to resolve a dispute over Iran's suspected nuclear arms ambitions that would allow Tehran to keep acivilian program.

    The EU-3, namely Britain, France and Germany, offered a package of trade, technology and security incentives that would permit Iran to pursue peaceful uses of nuclear energy if it renounced uranium enrichment activities that could lead to a bomb.

    "We support the EU-3's effort and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem and to seek an end to Iran's nuclear weapons program and fuel-cycle activities," acting State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.

    The spokesman said "we encourage Iran to consider positively the EU-3's offer (and) to continue to observe the Paris agreement" struck in November under which Iran suspended its sensitive fuel-cycle work while negotiations continued.

    US acceptance of the latest EU-3 offer represented something of a compromise with the Europeans at a time when the nuclear negotiations appeared headed towards a crisis, said a US official who asked not to be identified. Enditem