Major powers to insist Iran stop atomic work-US

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) The major world powers will insist Iran halts all nuclear enrichment and rejects a compromise put forward by the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said today.

At the White House, a spokesman called the new report by International Atomic Energy Agency ''a laundry list of Iran's continued defiance of the international community and shows that Iran's leaders are only furthering the isolation of the Iranian people.'' The State Department's Burns said: ''We are not going to agree to accept limited enrichment, to accept that 1,300 centrifuges can continue spinning at their plant at Natanz.'' Reuters SLD DB2059