Tuesday, September 27 2005 18:29 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Dubai: Voicing surprise over India's support to an IAEA resolution on its controversial nuclear programme, Iran today (Sept 27, 2005) threatened to review its economic and trade ties with all those countries which voted against Tehran.

It also threatened to resume uranium enrichment and block UN inspections of its nuclear facilities unless the United Nations' nuclear agency IAEA retracted its resolution that put the country on the verge of referral to the Security Council for possible sanctions.

"We were very surprised by India," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters in Tehran, adding "we will send a letter of objection to the countries that voted for the resolution."

Warning the 22 countries, which voted for the resolution on Saturday, of economic consequences, he said, "Iran will revise these (economic and trade) relations and these countries will suffer. Our economic and political relations are coordinated with each other."

Defending its decision to support the resolution, India yesterday (Sept 27, 2005) hoped that it would not affect bilateral energy cooperation and that it would go ahead with the 7.4-billion dollar trilateral gas pipeline project through Pakistan if found economically viable.

Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said in New Delhi that India supported the IAEA resolution to avert 'a major confrontation' between Iran and the international community.