Tehran  - Iran will make no concessions at next week's nuclear talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the official news agency IRNA quoted an official spokesman as saying Saturday.

"Iran will not accept any preconditions in the talks and any initiative towards depriving the Iranian nation (of nuclear rights) will not be acceptable," Gholam-Hossein Elham said.

Solana and chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili are scheduled to meet on July 19 in Geneva to discuss Iran's response to new incentives by the five UN Security Council veto powers and Germany.

Solana recently presented the package to Tehran in the latest effort by the international community to persuade Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme.

The West fears the nuclear programme is geared towards making weapons, but Iran says it is for peaceful purposes to generate electricity for its growing population.

Although the contents of Tehran's reply is not known, it seems Iran has not accepted the main demand of enrichment suspension and is planning to make new proposals to settle the dispute.

The row has escalated, following threats by Israel to attack Iranian nuclear sites, war games by the United States in the Gulf and missile tests by Iran, including a new version of a long-range Shahab-3 missile which could reach Israel. (dpa)