TEHRAN, Sept 26: Iran on Monday threatened to restart uranium enrichment and to stop allowing UN snap inspections of its atomic facilities, if moves to send it to the UN Security Council were not reversed.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday passed a resolution requiring that Tehran be reported to the council for possible sanctions, after Iran failed to convince the world its atomic ambitions were entirely peaceful.

“Unless the resolution is corrected or if its implementation is insisted upon, Iran will be forced to cancel all its voluntary and temporary measures including implementation of the Additional Protocol,” said a foreign ministry statement, read out on Iranian state television.

The Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) allows short-notice intrusive checks of atomic facilities by UN weapons inspectors.

Foremost among Iran’s voluntary measures is the suspension of uranium enrichment, a process it has already threatened to restart if sent to New York.—-Reuters