TEHRAN, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Iran intends to install 3,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges by March 2007, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Sunday.
Iran has been at the center of an international dispute this year over its nuclear ambitions. Some countries suspect the Islamic Republic of pursuing a covert weapons program, but Tehran has consistently denied the claims and says it needs nuclear energy for civilian needs.
Hosseini said Iran was doing all the work to install the centrifuges under control of the UN nuclear watchdog, adding that two cascades of 164 centrifuges were already in operation in the country.
Hosseini responded to a question about whether the Islamic Republic would install the centrifuges by the end of the Iranian year (March 2007).
