TEHRAN, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A senior Iranian official said on Saturday that Iran will no longer consider a proposal by Russia designed to solve the nuclear standoff since the UN nuclear agency decided to report Iran to the UN Security Council.

    Speaking to the state television from Vienna, Austria via phone, Javad Vaeedi, deputy head of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, said that under current circumstances, there was "no adequate reason" for the Islamic Republic to consider a Russian proposal to transfer sensitive nuclear enrichment to the Russian soil in a bid to settle the nuclear tension.

    "We have no reason to seek the Russian proposal," Vaeedi stressed.

    Vaeedi also said that Iran would resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment at the facilities in the central town of Natanze according to a law ratified late last year by the Iranian Majlis (Parliament).

    Vaeedi made the statements shortly after an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors in Vienna adopted a resolution to report Iran's nuclear issue to the UN Security Council.

    The Iranian Majlis in December 2005 ratified a law, demanding the government to go on with its nuclear program and cease all voluntary measures on the nuclear program if hauled to the UN, including the implementation of the addition protocol of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and voluntary suspension of some nuclear work.

    Earlier in the day, the Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel also vowed that Iran would not give in to pressures over its nuclear program.

    "The Iranian nation will not surrender to pressures imposed on the country by certain powers on its nuclear program," he said.

    "The Majlis believes the law mandating implementation of the country's nuclear program should be enforced. We will review it after the IAEA decision. But we should (first) see what decisions the agency will take," Adel added.

    Meanwhile, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Munich, Germany called on the international community to avoid double standards on its nuclear activity.

    "A small scale of nuclear activity in Iran was considered a threat and hit headlines, while a country in our region with more than 200 nuclear warheads and violates the human rights of the Palestinians by occupying their land was exempt of such accusation," Araghchi complained at the 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy.

    Araghchi referred to Israel, which is believed to be the only nuclear power in the Mideast region. But Israel has never admitted or denied possessing nuclear weapons.

    Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday also warned that referring Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council would be a "big mistake", terming it as a "black page" in history.

    Tensions on Iran's nuclear program have been tightened since Jan. 10 when Tehran resumed nuclear research work, namely uranium enrichment at a minim scale, regardless of warnings of the European Union (EU).

    Uranium enrichment is the key step for construction nuclear fuel cycle, which Iran says is a legitimate right enshrined by the NPT, but highly enriched uranium can be used as materials for building atomic bombs.

    In December, 2005, Moscow suggested that the two countries establish a joint venture on the Russian soil to enrich uranium for Iran so as to secure Iran's legitimate rights on peaceful nuclear energy under the guarantee that the technology will not be used for military purposes.

    However, Iran had posed an equivocal stance on the Russian proposal, firstly saying its uranium enrichment must be performed at home and then terming the offer as "not negative", which was accused by Washington as a move aimed to buy time.

    The United States has accused Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons and the EU has asserted that Iran's full mastery of nuclear fuel cycle technology would possibly lead to military usage.

    But Iran insists that its nuclear program is fully peaceful and aimed at meeting rising domestic demand for electricity. Enditem