TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran said Sunday that it has not determined the date to carry out its declared resumption of uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.

   "Iran would indeed resume its uranium enrichment activities, if the European Union failed to fulfill its commitments," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted as saying.

   Asefi stressed that the exact date for resumption would still have to be fixed.

   Hassan Rowhani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, said on Wednesday that Tehran would resume the enrichment in the near future.

   Iran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment on Nov. 22, 2004, in a bid to gain international recognition of its right to peaceful nuclear technology and the EU's pledged aid in nuclear and trade fields.

   However, Iran insisted it would never give up its legal rights and the suspension was only a voluntary and temporary measure to build confidence that its nuclear research was fully peaceful.

   Meanwhile, Iran warned the EU should be committed to its promises to encourage Tehran to implement the suspension.

   Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of Iran's powerful Expediency Council, said last month that the maximum duration of Iran's suspension was six months. 

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