Iran's top nuclear negotiator said the country will push forward immediately with efforts to enrich uranium after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions designed to stop the nuclear efforts, a newspaper reported Sunday. | "From Sunday morning, we will begin activities at Natanz - site of 3,000-centrifuge machines - and we will drive it with full speed. It will be our immediate response to the resolution." |
On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international pressure on the government to prove that it is not trying to make nuclear weapons.
Iran immediately rejected the resolution. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in response to the resolution that Iran was more determined to continue its nuclear activities. "Our response to the resolution is continuation of peaceful nuclear activities in a more concrete, more decisive and more organized manner than before," Hosseini told reporters.