TEHRAN, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Iran says it will resume nuclear fuel research on Monday.
"We will remove the seals and we have announced that we are ready to start research from tomorrow," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in a news conference Sunday.
The European Union has warned such a move could jeopardize a return to negotiations on Iran's sensitive nuclear ambitions, the BBC reported. Talks between Iran and the EU broke off last August after Iran resumed uranium conversion activity, which it had suspended in 2004.
Iran denies U.S. claims it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian use only.
Asefi said the resumption of nuclear research was Iran's right and would be done under the supervision of international inspectors.
