Iran's Ahmadinejad to offer proposals in nuclear row

Tehran: Iran will soon submit new proposals to resolve its dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

"There are various concerns in the world which big powers have no solutions for those international challenges but Iran has solutions," he told a news conference in Tehran.

"We have prepared a package which will soon be offered," Ahmadinejad said, adding that no incentives would persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear right.

"Iran is a big power and wants nothing more than its legal right to nuclear technology. Nothing can persuade us to abandon our right," he said.

"We believe that the era of threats and sanctions has ended and it will have no impact on the Iranian nation's will to obtain nuclear energy," the Iranian president said.

The West fears Tehran is secretly developing nuclear weapons, a charge that Iran denies.