TEHRAN, April 23 (UPI) -- With just days before a U.N. deadline to suspend its uranium enrichment program, Iran says it is too late to go back.
"Iran's uranium enrichment and nuclear research and development activities are irreversible," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
The U.N. Security Council has called on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment work by the end of this month, the BBC reported.
The International Atomic Energy Agency will submit a report on whether Iran has complied with the U.N. call.
"If the report contains expert assessment, there will be nothing left to worry about," said Asefi at a weekly news conference. "However, if the report comes out and somehow puts pressure on Iran or speaks with a language of threats, naturally Iran will not abandon its rights and it is prepared for all possible situations and has planned for it."
