Iran's "package of proposals has been updated in light of developments in the world and different events that have taken place and will be submitted to the P5+1 tomorrow," Mottaki was quoted as saying.

"We have created a new opportunity for discussions with a view to mutual cooperation," he added.

The P5+1 consists of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany, which are acting on behalf of the international community in the stand-off with Iran.

Mottaki's announcement comes as the International Atomic Energy Agency conducts a week-long meeting in Vienna, with IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei complaining of an impasse with Iran, while Tehran insists it has a non-negotiable right to pursue its programme.

"There is stalemate," ElBaradei told the 35-member board of governors on Monday at the start of the meeting.

"It is essential that Iran substantively re-engage with the agency to clarify and bring to closure all outstanding issues."

The Egyptian diplomat, who has been accused by the West of being too soft on Tehran, also reported that Iran is continuing to defy the Security Council in refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.

Enriched uranium is used to make both nuclear fuel and the fissile material for a nuclear bomb. The West and Israel accuse Tehran of seeking the bomb, a charge the Islamic republic vehemently rejects.

"Likewise, Iran has not cooperated with the agency in connection with the remaining issues, detailed fully and completely in the agency's reports, which need to be clarified in order to exclude the possibility of there being military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme," ElBaradei said.

He was referring to the so-called weaponisation studies, documents collected from intelligence sources that suggest Iran is trying to develop a nuclear warhead, convert uranium and test high explosives and a missile re-entry vehicle.

In Tehran, Ahmadinejad said on Monday that he would continue cooperating with the IAEA.

"What we have announced is cooperation in two parts: cooperation on peaceful use of clean atomic energy and preventing a proliferation of atomic weapons," Ahmadinejad said.

But "if anyone wants to interfere in the nuclear programme beyond the law, that path is blocked," he warned.

"From our point of view the nuclear file does not exist ... but what exists is the file of animosity.

"We will not negotiate over Iran's undeniable rights," he added.

While Iran has dismissed the weaponisation studies as a US fabrication, ElBaradei says Iran has done little so far to disprove them.

The IAEA chief also rejected charges he was withholding key evidence on the alleged weaponisation studies.

"These allegations are politically motivated and totally baseless," he said.

"Such attempts to influence the work of the secretariat and undermine its independence and objectivity are in violation ... of the IAEA statute and should cease forthwith," added ElBaradei, who steps down in November.

Last week, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner asked why ElBaradei refuses to provide the annexes of his latest report on Iran, in which he said "there are elements which enable us to ask questions about the reality of an atomic bomb," in particular on issues of warheads and transport.

The public section of the document said Iran had slowed its production of enriched uranium and had agreed to closer monitoring of its enrichment plant.

World powers have threatened further sanctions if negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme fail.

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