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American officials said Thursday that Iran's latest proposal for talks with the West falls well short of satisfying international demands that it detail its nuclear program.

With a U.S.-imposed September deadline for Iran looming, the officials said the Obama administration remains open to talks and held out hope that Iranian officials might signal a similar interest by the time world leaders meet later this month at the U.N. General Assembly.

President Barack Obama warned the fundamentalist Iranian regime earlier this year that the U.S. wanted to see a positive response to its overtures by the end of September. If not, Obama said the U.S. was prepared to press for new sanctions against Iran.