Iran official touts 'new environment'

(CNN) - Iran's foreign minister said Thursday that the country will consider at least temporarily halting part of its uranium enrichment program as part of an effort to persuade the world to "look to Iran through a different lens."

Iran "is committed to its constructive approach and the resolution of regional and international affairs and problems," Manouchehr Mottaki said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria to be aired Sunday.

"We believe that the nature of our exchanges, both in format and in substance, were different than of previous times," he said of talks with the European Union, which resulted in an EU offer to suspend further sanctions if Iran takes a six-week break from manufacturing centrifuges that enrich uranium.