Special Report: Iran Nuclear Crisis

    TEHRAN, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran reiterated on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would not suspend its disputed uranium enrichment activities, the official IRNA news agency reported.

    "There is no logic in the discussion of suspension (of uranium enrichment) and it is not something acceptable," Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham was quoted as saying.

    "Our response to the package of proposals (by the six world powers) and further talks will not be based on the suspension," he said, adding that Tehran would respond to the package after thoroughly studying them.

    On June 14, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana handed the offer of incentives to the Iranian authorities on behalf of UN Security Council permanent members -- France, China, Britain, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany.

    Solana said on Thursday that he had received no formal reply from Iran to the package of incentives offered by the major nations in a bid to persuade it to halt uranium enrichment.

    European diplomats said the European Union was mulling energy sanctions if Iran refuses to halt its uranium enrichment program, but the discussions were still at a very early phase and a decision would take several months to make.

    The UN Security Council has imposed so far three rounds of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend enrichment activities.