Iran confirmed it will resume research on nuclear fuel on Monday. "Iran will today resume nuclear fuel research as scheduled," government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told a news conference on Monday morning. "We will remove the seals and we have announced that we are ready to start research from tomorrow," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a news conference on Sunday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was due on Monday to hold his first major news conference since taking office in August, according to a report of Reuters.