TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Sunday the West has given it until the end of January to accept a uranium swap deal, stressing it will press on with plans to produce higher enriched nuclear fuel if there is no agreement. Tehran has already ignored a US-set December 31 deadline to accept a UN-brokered deal aimed at allaying fears about its nuclear drive by shipping most of its low enriched uranium (LEU) stockpile abroad to be further enriched into reactor fuel. Despite the threat of tougher sanctions, Iran has rejected the offer drawn up by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and come out with its own proposal of a simultaneous and staged swap of LEU with reactor fuel. Based on the talks Iran had with the relevant parties, it was decided to provide the Tehran reactor with the necessary fuel (from outside), and if not then we will produce it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Then the (negotiating) parties asked the Islamic republic to give them two months to reach an understanding and we accepted that, news agencies quoted him as saying. Now one month of that waiting period is over and one month is left. So if it does not materialise (the provision of fuel) then Iran will take the necessary decision. Mehmanparast was speaking a day after Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gave the West a one-month ultimatum to accept the Iranian counter-proposal. Some western powers have dismissed the Iranian proposal and called on Tehran to accept the IAEA deal or face further sanctions. Reacting to Mottakis statement, the US National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said on Saturday that the IAEA proposal was sufficient. If getting access to fuel is Irans objective, then there is absolutely no reason why the existing proposal, which Iran accepted in principle at Geneva, is insufficient. The Iranian government is standing in its own way, Hammer said. Meanwhile, a top Israeli official said the UN Security Council will adopt a fresh batch of sanctions against Iran within a month. The world is uniting against Irans nuclear programme, and within a month we will see UN Security Council sanctions, deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon of Tehrans arch-foe Israel said on Sunday.