TEHRAN - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that Iran has the right to pursuing "peaceful" nuclear activity.

About the production of 20-percent enriched uranium, Mehmanparast said, the Islamic republic has the right to every peaceful activity and that its rights must be recognized.

"Iran will not give up its rights," said the Iranian spokesman in his weekly press briefing.

Mehmanparast said Sunday that Iran will consider halting 20- percent uranium enrichment if the West recognizes the "civilian" nature of its nuclear program.

"If the Western governments acknowledge the civilian nature of Iranian nuclear program and ask for halting the 20-percent (nuclear) enrichment, Iran will consider their request," he said.

He added that the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the basis for Iran's nuclear talks with the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany (P5+1).

"Iran has been a signatory to the NPT and signed the treaty in the early stages of its emergence," Mehmanparast was quoted as saying when speaking about Iran's talks with the P5+1.

On Tuesday, Mehmanparast said that Western countries' double track pressure-dialogue approach over the country's nuclear program is wrong and has not born any fruits for the West.

The Baghdad talks on Iran's nuclear standoff were concluded earlier this month with a plan to hold another round of talks in Moscow on June 18-19.