Iran has handed its response

Iran has handed its response to the diplomats


Ali Larijani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, gave the response to foreign envoys representing the six co-sponsors of the package in Tehran.

"I expect a very ambiguous answer," said one Western diplomat.

Al-Alam (Iran's state-run Arabic-language Television Reports) gave no details of the reply which Iranian officials have already indicated is unlikely to address a key demand by the U.N. Security Council that it suspend uranium enrichment work by an August 31 deadline or face the threat of sanctions.

Further news are yet to come.