(VOVworld) - Iran’s parliament has started to draft a law that would allow the country’s nuclear scientists to intensify their uranium enrichment, a step that could complicate ongoing talks with world powers. The move, announced Saturday by the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, comes after US lawmakers said they were planning legislation that could place new sanctions on Iran.

The negotiations between Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — plus Germany, face a June 30 deadline for a final deal. But with two deadlines already missed last year both sides have admitted big differences remain on the hard detail of what a comprehensive agreement would look like. Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, committee spokesperson in Tehran, told the ISNA news agency that draft legislation was underway.