TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has insisted it will not be frozen uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has insisted it will not be frozen uranium enrichment, in defiance of a UN resolution and warned it could flat expand its nuclear programme which the West fears is a guard for efforts to build the bomb

"Our activities refer to the Non-Proliferation Treaty... so we will not accept the suspension (of uranium enrichment)," nuclear chief Ali Larijani told a recently made knowns conference Sunday, in the first formal reaction to the July 31 resolution.

"They should know that like resolutions will not affect our determination. We will prosecute the nuclear rights of Iranians which are enshrined in the NPT"

The UN Security Council resolution requires Iran to halt uranium enrichment and other sensitive nuclear combustible matter work by August 31 or face the hope of sanctions.

"This resolution has no legal credibility and it negates the design of the (International Atomic Energy) Agency," Larijani said.

The resolution was pushed