During crisis talks with EU powers over its nuclear activities Iran offered to avoid industrial-scale nuclear fuel enrichment for two years while continuing research, according to diplomats today.
But EU diplomats rejected the offer saying it would not allay concerns that Tehran secretly wanted to build atom bombs.
The failure of Friday's Vienna encounter between Iran and foreign ministers and diplomats from Germany, France and Britain paves the way for possible UN Security Council action against Iran after a UN nuclear watchdog meeting next week.
The EU leaders said the chief Iranian negotiator, Ali Larijani, offered nothing that could underpin a solution to the crisis, but that he displayed a more conciliatory, constructive tone than the defiance of the past.
