Iran runs over 3,000 Centrifuges to enrich uranium for the controversial nuclear program.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is now running 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium for its controversial nuclear program. The claims reported in Iranian state media come just days after the UN nuclear watchdog put the number at close to 2,000.
President Ahmadinejad has told a meeting of Iranian university students that western countries thought that with every new resolution, Iran would back down. But he said, after every resolution, Iranians took another step and made new achievements.
The Iranian president said his country has more than three-thousand centrifuges in operation, and every week a new set of centrifuges will be installed.
The IAEA issued a report on Thursday saying the Iranian enrichment program had slowed, and the country was cooperating with its nuclear probe. The report could rebuff calls for a third round of sanctions against Iran.
In April, Iran announced it was operating three-thousand centrifuges, but the IAEA said Iran had not reached that level.
In the latest report, the organization put the number of centrifuges enriching uranium in Natanz at close to two thousand.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says Iran will revise its cooperation with the IAEA.. if the UN Security Council imposes new sanctions against Iran.
The spokesman says Iran will consider different options if sanctions are imposed
