Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that his country had put over 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges into operation, local Fars news agency reported.
"They (Western countries) thought that with every new resolution, Iran would back down," Ahmadinejad told a meeting of Iranian university students, referring to the two UN Security Council resolution sanctions imposed against Iran since last December.
"But after every resolution, Iranians took another step and made new achievements," the Iranian president said.
"Now Iran has put more than 3,000 centrifuges into operation and every week a new set of centrifuges would be installed," he said.
The United States and other Western countries have accused Iran of trying to develop atomic weapons under a civilian cover, but Iran denies such accusation, saying it just wants to generate electricity.
On March 24, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution, the second punitive one, with tougher sanctions to pressure Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
However, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report in May said that Iran continued to resist the UN Security Council ban on enrichment and instead was expanding its activities.
Source: Xinhua
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