Iranians to restart nuclear activities

Iran announced Tuesday plans to restart sensitive nuclear research activities, a move that threatens an agreement with European negotiators and tests the will of the international community to punish the country.

The decision, contained in a letter delivered Tuesday to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring agency, in Vienna, declared that Iran “has decided to resume” research and development “on the peaceful nuclear energy program” that was suspended under an agreement with France, Germany and Britain in late 2004.

International Herald Tribune