The United States will continue talking...

U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns was in Moscow on Thursday to discuss Iran and arms reduction with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

"The United States believes we should keep the door open to negotiations and involve Iran in cooperation," he said in an interview with Gazeta daily published in Russian.

"But we should also make it clear [to Iran] that a non-constructive response to creative proposals put forward by the international community will not have but consequences," he went on.

The UN nuclear regulator, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had arranged a plan under which Russia would lead a consortium that would enrich uranium for the Tehran Research Center.

Iran rejected that proposal, under which it would have shipped low-enriched uranium abroad in exchange for a more highly enriched version.

The Iran Six, comprising Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States,

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