Iran informs IAEA of nuclear work resumption

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been formally notified of Iran's decision to resume full-scale uranium enrichment work.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has been formally notified of Iran's decision to resume full-scale uranium enrichment work, the country's top national security was quoted as saying.

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"In a letter to the IAEA, we have announced this date," Ali Larijani was quoted as saying.

"Their inspectors will come to Iran for this purpose in the next few days," said Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

Enrichment is a process that involves feeding uranium gas through cascades of centrifuges. When purified to low levels the result is reactor fuel, but the process can be extended to make the fissile core of a nuclear bomb.

The hardline regime has ended the enrichment suspension in response to Saturday vote by the IAEA's 35-natin board of governors to report Iran to the UN Security Council.