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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: â€œIran is installing centrifuges more efficient for five timesâ€

16 February 2010 16:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Suleyman Farzaliyev â€“ APA. Iran is installing more advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility, which accelerating enrichment program for five times, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a press conference on Tuesday, APA reports quoting Iribnews. He said Iran was ready to discuss proposals made for exchanging uranium for nuclear reactors.
Speaking before 200 foreign and local journalists, the Iranian president said that their hopes for cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency failed. â€œThe proposal for the fuel exchange is not closed yet. We have announced that we will exchange within a just framework. We are ready for an exchange even with the United States. The US can come and give us their 20 percent fuel and we will pay them if they want, or we can give them 3.5 percent fuel. But the swap should take place simultaneously and we will put our fuel under the supervision of the (UN atomic) agency in Iran. Tehran could suspend enriching uranium to the 20 percent level if world powers supplied it the required fuel for Tehran reactor. We are not insisting on doing this (20 percent enrichment) although we have the capability. If they supplied the (uranium enriched to) 20 percent, the situation may changeâ€.