Speaking at a conference in Paris on Tuesday, the government official siad Tehran would recommence mining uranium and enriching it.
Iran
is also to build a heavy-water reactor which can produce
plutonium, Muhammad Saidi, vice president of the Atomic Energy
Organisation of Iran (AEOI), said.
"The people and government of Iran
are determined to open their way through the tortuous path of peaceful
use of nuclear technology despite all imposed restrictions and
difficulties," he said.
Saidi told a conference on nuclear power that Iran,
one of the world's major oil producers, still needed nuclear energy "to
reverse the trend of unrestrained use of fossil resources".