Thursday, May 12 2005 12:13 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Tehran: Iran has decided to restart a part of its nuclear programme that had been suspended as part of a deal with the European Union (EU) and a "noticeable part" of uranium conversion activities will soon resume, a senior official said today (May 12, 2005).

"Based on the reviews and decisions which were made, we are going to restart a small part of the suspended activities," Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, a vice president and head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told State television.

He said, "probably a noticeable part of UCF," or work at a uranium conversion facility near the central city of Isfahan, would be resumed.

Aghazadeh added that the "exact date of the restart will be given to me momentarily".