Iran to attend n-talks with new proposals

Iran will attend the upcoming nuclear talks in Geneva with new proposals, Xinhua reported Friday citing Press TV.

Sources close to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team said Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif will be present in the negotiations only if other parties are represented by their foreign ministers, according to the report.

In case the meeting is not held at the foreign ministers' level, the deputy of Iran's foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Abbas Araqchi, will lead Iran's negotiating team, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.

The P5+1 group, which includes the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, will hold talks with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme in Geneva Oct 15-16.

Media outlets had reported Wednesday that Iran was preparing a package of proposals to halt production of 20 percent of enriched uranium, a key demand of the US and other global powers.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the package includes "limits on the numbers of centrifuges operating, enrichment amounts and the need for verification".

Tehran, in return, would request that the US and European Union begin scaling back sanctions, said the report.

Iran has also reiterated that the right to uranium enrichment inside Iran is non-negotiable in the upcoming nuclear discussions with world powers.