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TEHRAN-Iran said on Tuesday uranium enrichment was its "red line" and would continue, despite an enhanced offer of incentives from big powers to stop activity the West fears could yield nuclear bombs.The EU's top diplomat, Javier Solana, presented Tehran on Saturday with an adjusted package of economic benefits designed to persuade it to curb its nuclear work, and said Iran should stop enrichment during negotiations to implement the offer."We have repeatedly said that enrichment is our red line and we should enjoy this technology.The work will be continued," deputy foreign minister Alireza Sheikhattar told reporters, according to the state news agency IRNA.The incentive package agreed by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany last month and delivered by Solana is a revised version of one rejected by Iran in 2006.Western powers have warned Iran it will face more sanctions if it spurns the offer. Iran has shown no sign it will change its position, and suggested it was in no hurry to respond to the incentives proposal, saying it is being reviewed."We will give our answer as soon as possible. But we do not know exactly when it will be," the Iranian official said.The incentives package offers Iran the chance to develop a civilian nuclear program with light water reactors-seen as harder to divert into bomb-making than the technology Tehran is now developing-and legally binding fuel supply guarantees.It also offers trade and other benefits, including the possibility of Iran buying civil aircraft from the West.To read more go to:
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