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By Sara Rajabova

An Iranian diplomat who took part in latest meeting of Iran and P5+1 Group unveiled the proposals by six world powers.

Last time, Iranian delegates met with those from China, Germany, France, Russia, the UK and the U.S. in Kazakhstan on February 26 and 27. No diplomatic breakthrough was announced and the details of an international proposal to Iran weren't released. The sides agreed to meet in Almaty again on April 5-6 for the next round of negotiations after "expert-level" talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul on March 17-18.

The diplomat, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that the six major powers offered some proposals to Tehran during nuclear talks held in Almaty , particularly P5+1 wanted Iran to allow all centrifugal manufacturing processes be placed under IAEA supervision completely.

"They want to have massive control even above the Non-Proliferation Treaty framework over Iran's nuclear activities as well," he said.

According to him, P5+1 requires Iran to set limits to its five-percent enriched uranium stockpile and convert the UF6 stockpile to nuclear fuel.

Iran has also enriched above 250 kg of 20-percent enriched uranium and converted a half of this volume to nuclear fuel.

The Iranian diplomat said P5+1 asked Iran to convert the rest of the 20 percent enriched uranium to a five percent enriched one.

Another proposal is Iran's avoidance to inject UF6 to new installed centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant.

According to him, the six powers proposals to Iran included lifting a ban on gold exports to Iran as a first step. During the next steps, they promised to lift sanctions over Iran's petrochemical sector and some banks as well as supplying Iran's ageing airline fleet with airplane parts and repair them.

The diplomat said that these proposals were a good step to start progress, but not enough.

"They should compromise more and the weight of their proposals should be equal to their demands from Iran," he added.

The Iranian diplomat said that some details of the aforementioned proposals will be discussed at the Istanbul meeting and "we are positive about the results."

Meanwhile, the Iran's Vice President for International Affairs Ali Saeedlou said on Monday that Iran expects the P5+1 group to adopt logical and rational approach toward Iran as enmity to Iranian nation will backfire and harm them

"We have to wait and see whether they will revise their approach toward Iran," he said.

Protesting to the western governments for imposing sanctions in contravention with the international law, the vice-president said that they cannot talk about mutual understanding and exert economic pressure, on the other hand.

However, ahead of the new round of talks between Iran and six major world powers, Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have imposed sanctions against nine Iranian individuals over allegations of "serious human rights violations."

During their meeting in Brussels on Monday, EU ministers approved travel bans and asset freezes for the nine Iranians while the assets of a public sector institution, also linked to alleged violations of human rights, will be frozen, unnamed diplomats said, Press TV reported.

The ministers also extended the bloc's previous human rights bans targeting other Iranian officials for another year, until April 2014.

The new measures come after the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran ,Ahmed Shaheed , released his fourth report in late February accusing Iran of 'violations of human rights'.

The Iranian government dismissed the recent UN report, calling it unsubstantiated, biased, and a repetition of the Western allegations against Tehran.

In early 2012, the US and the European Union imposed new sanctions on Iran's oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.

The sanctions were imposed based on the accusation that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program. Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.