TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday that a meeting with European negotiators should include a guarantee that its nuclear fuel cycle remain in Iran, seemingly rejecting a proposal to move the process to Russia to prevent the production of weapons-grade uranium.

Diplomats in Vienna said this month that senior French, British and German officials would make a last-ditch effort to convince Tehran to accept a compromise on its nuclear program. Iran wants an unfettered nuclear program while the United States wants Iran hauled before the U.N. Security Council for violating the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty.