Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says the Bushehr nuclear power plant will help Tehran replace fossil fuel with less environmentally damaging alternatives.
"The Bushehr nuclear power plant is one of [Iran's] great plans that will pave the way for us to take new steps in the field of alternative and less environmentally damaging energy sources in the future," a Press TV correspondent quoted Mehmanparast as telling reporters in a weekly press conference on Tuesday.
"We will pursue our peaceful nuclear activities in other areas, too," the Iranian spokesperson said in response to a question regarding the injection of fuel to the core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday morning.
The Bushehr power plant is the country's first nuclear reactor.
The Iranian official also downplayed the US-sponsored sanctions against Tehran, saying the West's economic measures against the Islamic Republic will not stop the Iranian nation from pursuing its nuclear rights.
In June, the UN Security Council imposed a fourth set of US-sponsored sanctions against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, which the West and Israel claim harbors a covert military agenda -- a claim rejected by the Islamic Republic.
Tehran says that as an IAEA member and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) it has the right to use peaceful nuclear energy.
Commenting on Iran's future nuclear meeting with the Group P5+1 (the US, France, Russia, China, Britain and Germany), Mehmanparast reiterated that Tehran is pursuing the issue.
"The issues that are being pursued are focusing on the date, venue and the focus of the negotiations, which should be approved by the two sides through further interaction," the Iranian spokesperson concluded.