Iran is working on advanced nuclear facilities: official

Iran now is working on extraordinary nuclear equipment for its uranium-related activities, a ranking official told the state television on Saturday.

Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, told the state television that Iran is "studying and conducting research on different types of machines."

The deputy nuclear chief also said that Iran will continue its nuclear activities, despite a UN demand to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Saeedi made the comments one day after Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), submitted a report on Iran's defiance to the UN demand, which called on Iran to suspend its uranium-related activities by Friday deadline.

Iran announced earlier this month that it had produced low- grade enriched uranium by launching 164 centrifuges at the uranium enrichment facility in the central town of Natanz.

That marked a technical leap in the process for nuclear power plant construction, which immediately aroused strong international concern.

Source: Xinhua