EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana today reacted cautiously to a proposal from a senior Iranian nuclear official that France enrich Iran’s uranium on Iranian soil to satisfy international demands for foreign supervision of the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.

A top Iranian official proposed today that France create a consortium to enrich Iran’s uranium, to satisfy international demands for outside monitoring of Tehran’s nuclear programme.

IRAN has made a last-ditch proposal to break the deadlock over its nuclear programme as world powers warned it still risked being taken to the UN Security Council within a week for possible sanctions.