IRAN - Dec 26 - Iran 'Revises' Co-Operation With IAEA.

Tehran parliament considers a plan to "revise" the country's co-operation with the IAEA in response a vote by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions onran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology. UN vote, aimed at dissuading Iran from carrying out uranium enrichment activities that could produce material to be used in a nuclear weapon, was dismissed by Pres Ahmadi-Nejad as "illegal" and "superficial". FM Manouchehr Mottaki, who attended a closed parliamentary session to discuss Iran's response, told reporters that the government fully endorsed parliament's plan, although it was not clear whether the move would be anything other than symbolic. Iran's policy seems to be neither to accept the UN demand, nor make any immediate threats to withdraw from the NPT or to deliberately upset the oil market. "MPs reiterated that we should not take any provocative step", Ali Asgari, an MP told reporters after the meeting. "But we should have some surprising moves". He may have been referring to a statement by Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear official immediately after the UN vote, who said Iran would go ahead with installing 3,000 centrifuges in its pilot plant of Natanz. Mottaki said the centrifuges would start enrichment "soon". Experts believe that 2,000 centrifuges can produce sufficient highly-enriched uranium for a reactor or a bomb. Iran denies any military purposes for its nuclear programme, which it says it is merely for civilian purposes. Analysts say Iran's president believes sanctions will not hurt Iran and that the country should not show any sign of retreat. However, the country's supreme leader, Ayat Ali Khamenei, who is thought to be the key decision maker, has not yet reacted to the UN resolution.