Editor's note: Two paragraphs were added in the article
Iran has already enriched the first batch of uranium up to 20-percent, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at the rally in Tehran to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, IRINN television channel reported.
"We have asked the West to provide us with 20-percent enriched uranium and they refused," he said. "So, we ourselves have launched the uranium enrichment."
The president said that Iran gave an opportunity to the West to provide Iran with fuel for the Tehran laboratory Amir Abad, which the West refused, despite the fact that 850,000 patients in the country receive drugs from this laboratory.
Iran has a capacity to enrich uranium to 20-percent in the amount of 3-5 kilograms per month, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Isna news agency.
The president said Iran will three-fold increase the level of production. "Enriching uranium to 20-percent is not related to nuclear weapons, we do not want to produce nuclear weapons, as we do not need them," he said. "If we had wanted to develop nuclear weapons, we would openly state about this and create it."
According to Ahmadinejad, this does not included in Iran's political doctrine.
Editor's note: Two paragraphs were added in the article
Iran has already enriched the first batch of uranium up to 20-percent, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at the rally in Tehran to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, IRINN television channel reported.
"We have asked the West to provide us with 20-percent enriched uranium and they refused," he said. "So, we ourselves have launched the uranium enrichment."
The president said that Iran gave an opportunity to the West to provide Iran with fuel for the Tehran laboratory Amir Abad, which the West refused, despite the fact that 850,000 patients in the country receive drugs from this laboratory.
Iran has a capacity to enrich uranium to 20-percent in the amount of 3-5 kilograms per month, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Isna news agency.
The president said Iran will three-fold increase the level of production. "Enriching uranium to 20-percent is not related to nuclear weapons, we do not want to produce nuclear weapons, as we do not need them," he said. "If we had wanted to develop nuclear weapons, we would openly state about this and create it."
According to Ahmadinejad, this does not included in Iran's political doctrine.
