Iran needs 50,000 centrifuges: Ahmedinejad
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Tehran, Dec 6 - Iran needs 50,000 centrifuges to supply fuel for one year to a power plant, President Mohammed Ahmedinejad has said, official news agency IRNA reported Thursday.'When we commissioned 164 series of centrifuges, the ill-wishers told us to stop there and that they would ignore it. But, we need 50,000 centrifuges to supply fuel for one year to a power plant,' the president told a gathering of disabled war veterans and their families in the western province of Ilam Wednesday.He said Iran continued industrial production of nuclear fuel against the wish of the US and some western countries, and would do so in future, too.On the possibility of the UN Security Council adopting a new resolution imposing stricter sanctions against Iran, the president said, 'Our nation does not fear such threats.'The Iran nuclear controversy has taken a new angle after a US intelligence report Monday said Tehran had stopped its weaposination programme in 2003.However, the US, backed by France, Britain and Germany, said sanctions were still an option to force Iran to be fully transparent about its nuclear activities.Russia and China, which have strong business interests in Iran, have the power to veto move for new sanctions in the Security Council. (c) Indo-Asian News Service
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