Iran said on Monday that it would resume limited work on its nuclear fuel conversion in the central city of Isfahan later in the day.

"We will resume activities this evening in Isfahan," an official said on condition of anonymity.

"The matter is settled, whether the European trio -- Britain, France and Germany -- submits its proposals or not and whatever they contain," the official added.

The remarks confirmed Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid- Reza Asefi's warning on Sunday that if the European Union did not present their proposal on Iran's nuclear issue by Monday, suspended activities at Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility would restart.

Asefi also said almost all European and non-European countries had called upon Iran to revise its decision on the nuclear issue, including UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who held talks with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi in this respect.

He added that Iran had been sufficiently patient with the EU and that it could wait no longer.

The EU has been trying but in vain to talk Iran out of its enrichment program, a key procedure on the way to building nuclear reactor.

The EU trio is busy formulating a comprehensive proposal on the solution of the Iranian nuclear issue, including a package of economic and political incentives, promised by the bloc in late May in the latest round of nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

Iran has urged the EU to secure its right to continue uranium enrichment in the proposal.

Iran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment in November 2004 according to an agreement reached with the EU but refused to turn the temporary suspension into a permanent halt.

The United States has accused Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons, a charge rejected by Tehran as politically motivated.

Source: Xinhua