‘Iran has 100kg of uranium’

Published June 23, 2007

TEHRAN, June 22: Iran has enriched and stored more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of enriched uranium, its interior minister said in remarks published on Friday on the eve of top-level talks over its nuclear programme.

“We have currently 3,000 operational centrifuges and delivered more than 100 kilograms of enriched uranium to warehouses,” said Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, quoted by the ISNA news agency.

He added that Iran had also stocked more than “150 tonnes of uranium gas.”—APP

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