Iran to resume nuclear work at Isfahan site

Iran said on Sunday it was getting ready to resume some uranium enrichment-related work, despite warnings from Washington and the European Union that doing so would see its nuclear case sent to the UN Security Council.

Iran is threatening to restart uranium processing but has promised to maintain its freeze on actual uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make bomb-grade fuel. ‘‘We have decided to resume part of our activities in Isfahan,’’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said, referring to Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility in central Iran.

‘‘We have still not decided which activities (will be resumed) and when … We are at a decision-making stage and whether we reach an agreement (with the EU) or not we will do this,’’ he told a weekly news conference.

Hardline lawmakers, who control a majority of seats in Iran’s parliament, meanwhile, are threatening to pass a new Bill obliging the government to resume uranium enrichment itself. —Reuters