"If the text is adopted, Iran will have to set a date to end the suspension of uranium enrichment," the head of the parliamentary committee for national security and foreign affairs, Allaeddin Boroudjeri told the Irna agency.

At the start of October, the committee had approved the text that is to be debated by parliament, which tells the government to "to take action for the country to master civilian nuclear technology, especially in the fuel production cycle."

It is expected that the lawmakers will vote on the text in the course of the day.

Iran agreed in October 2003 to a request from Britain, France and Germany for it to suspend uranium enrichment, but has since started to manufacture parts of centrifuges that could be used to enrich uranium.

Depending on the level of purification, enriched uranium can be used either as fuel for a civilian reactor or as the explosive core of a nuclear bomb. Iran insists it only wants to generate electricity.

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