Iranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi warned the United States on Wednesday not to stage military actions against Iran, urging the two countries to seek a negotiated settlement to the Iranian nuclear crisis.

"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government," said Ebadi in Berlin, where she was to launch the German version of her autobiography, titled Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope.

She said that the situation in Iran's neighbor Iraq shows what price the people have to pay for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

"Iraq is on the verge of civil war and the break-up of the country. That is the result of the arbitrary U.S. attack strike against Iraq," she said, adding "just because a country makes a mistake it doesn't give another country the right to invade it."

She also accused the U.S. media of putting Iran in a bad light in order to prepare the American public for an invasion.

Edadi was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for peace for her efforts to promote the rights of women and children in Iran.

Iran was in a deadlock with the West after it resumed uranium enrichment activities early this year.

The West believes that the Islamic nation is developing nuclearweapons, but Iran insists the program is for peaceful use.