New proposals from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will lead to a "breakthrough" and major changes in negotiations over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, Iran's top negotiator said on Saturday.
"With our new proposals to the Europeans we will have a breakthrough and with these positive results we will reach our goal," Ali Larijani was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies.
"Dr Ahmadinejad has new innovations, and the details will be announced soon," he added, signalling the initiative could be partly designed to widen international involvement in the talks - currently being led by Britain, France and Germany.
In comments likely to anger the EU-3 - who have been negotiating with Iran for nearly two years - Larijani said he did "not agree that the European countries are acting on the behalf of all nations".
He said countries from Non-Aligned Movement, China and Russia - seen as being more sympathetic to Iran's effort to possess nuclear fuel facilities - "cannot be excluded" from the diplomacy.
"There will be definite changes regarding the negotiating methods and political conditions currently governing the negotiations," said Larijani, who was speaking after meeting in Vienna with UN atomic watchdogs Chief Mohamed ElBaradei.