TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) - Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that Washington was aiming to trigger a confrontation between former archfoes-turned allies Iran and Iraq. Americas final goal is to create confrontation between Iran and Iraq, Vahidi said in reaction to an interview by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates in which he urged Washingtons Arab allies to strengthen their military capabilities in order to pressure Iran into halting its nuclear programme. We advise US officials not to try to militarise the atmosphere in the region and to change their wrong strategy to make up for past mistakes, Vahidi was quoted as saying by Fars new agency. The Minister renewed Irans insistence that it has no ambitions to develop an atomic bomb as world powers sought urgent talks on its latest proposals to allay concerns. He said the US from the beginning made an incorrect judgement about Irans nuclear programme based on fraudulent information. We regard production of weapons of mass destruction as contrary to our religious, human and national principles, he was quoted as saying. Manufacturing nuclear weapons is not, and has never been, on our agenda. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran would not back down in its nuclear row with the West. He renewed Irans readiness for negotiations over its nuclear proposals but made no direct response to calls from the major powers for urgent talks. We cannot have any compromise with respect to the Iranian nations inalienable right, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference, in language Iranian officials normally use to refer to its nuclear programme. Iran on Wednesday handed over a five-page proposal to the major powers, including the United States, in which Tehran said it was willing to discuss global nuclear disarmament as well as other international issues. In Brussels, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he was seeking an urgent meeting with Irans chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili. Mottaki, at a joint news conference with his visiting Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, said Irans package of proposals showed Irans firm resolve to address different issues and that it could pave the way for negotiations. Our new proposal is the package ... if its conditions are brought about talks can take place, he said. The major powers, which include permanent UN Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States as well as Germany, offered Iran trade and diplomatic incentives in 2006 in exchange for a halt to uranium enrichment. Mottaki said Western powers had experienced four years of failed policy of imposing sanctions on Iran, referring to three rounds of punitive UN measures since 2006. Davutoglu said Turkey, which earlier this year said it was trying to bridge US-Iranian differences, wanted to see the dispute resolved and sanctions removed as it was seeking to boost economic and other ties with its neighbour. We want to prepare the ground for ... lifting of sanctions and resolution of all the issues through negotiations, he said, according to Irans English-language Press TV. We believe that Irans energy resources must play a more vital role in supplying global energy needs, said Davutoglu.