TEHRAN, Dec. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A top Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday criticized the West's policy on Iran's nuclear program as biased, the official IRNA news agency reported.

    "The West can hardly accept Iran's potential for access to indigenous nuclear technology accounting for the national independence," Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, was quoted as saying.

    Boroujerdi referred to insistence of the United States and the European Union (EU) that Iran can not get full mastery of nuclear fuel cycle and such a technology be possibly used for military purposes.

    The West has launched an extensive psychological warfare against Iran in the field of nuclear issue to attract the attention of the world public opinion, he said, stressing that conscious resistance of the Iranians aiming to protect the country's legal and international rights was the only way to defeat such attempts.

    Boroujerdi said Iran had so far received no official proposal on transferring the nuclear fuel cycle to any other country, adding that Iran's prerequisite for "completing the nuclear cycle is in its own territory."

    Iran and the EU have agreed to resume in late December nuclear negotiations which have been stranded since Tehran defiantly resumed uranium conversion activities in early August.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency on Nov. 24 decided to postpone the referral of Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council in order to provide extra time for Iran and the EU to discuss an alleged Russian compromise plan.

    According to the proposal, Iran will be allowed to conduct uranium conversion activities on condition that the enrichment stage be moved to Russia, a measure keeping Tehran from obtaining nuclear technology crucial to make atom bombs.

    Iran has categorically rejected the suggestion over enrichment abroad, insisting that uranium enrichment be its legal right enshrined by the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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