South Africa proposed a compromise on Friday to prevent a global meeting on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from collapsing over Iranian objections to the agenda, and Tehran said it would consider the idea.

Iran on Tuesday objected to a clause inserted in the agenda of the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, saying that the clause would unjustly single it out as a peril to the NPT.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday underlined that his people are insistent on their inalienable right to fully access and use nuclear energy, assuring that his country would never retreat from its stances even for an inch.