Kampala, Uganda — Iran is studying incentives from the world’s powers for the country to drop its uranium-enrichment program and will respond “at an appropriate time,” the Foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said.

Iran is prepared to negotiate on the proposals, but it won’t be intimidated by threats from America, Mr. Mottaki said yesterday in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, where he’s attending a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. America “has no right to interfere; the time for ordering other nations is over,” he said.

America, European governments, Russia, and China are offering the incentives in exchange for a halt to Iran’s production of nuclear fuel, which America and its allies suspect is disguising a program to develop an atomic bomb or gain the knowledge to make one.

President Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly said he won’t surrender to pressure over the nuclear dispute from the Bush administration and its allies, said the West had failed to coerce his country. And Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said on Wednesday Iran won’t be pushed into suspending its enrichment program.

Mr. Mottaki’s promise to examine the incentives package doesn’t signal any softening in Iran’s stance, Radzhab Safarov, director of the Moscow-based Center for the Study of Contemporary Iran, who has ties to the government in Tehran, said. “Any new proposals which stipulate that Iran must freeze its uranium enrichment will fail because Iran under no circumstances will agree to suspend enrichment,” he said by phone.

“In the nuclear issue, the bullying powers have used up all their capabilities but could not break the will of the Iranian nation,” Mr. Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state television yesterday, according to Agence France-Presse.

It wasn’t clear whether Mr. Ahnmadinejad’s comments were in response to the proposal presented by the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, in Tehran on June 14.