Iran: We have reserve nuke facility
Tehran says it would be able to continue uranium enrichment even if attacked militarily
Iran will be able to carry out uranium enrichment even in the case of a military attack on its nuclear facilities, the country's nuclear envoy said in Moscow on Thursday.
"We are faced with a very serious threat and so we have had to take measures to protect our facilities. We have provided for another facility in Fardo near Qom," Ali Asghar Soltanieh, envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters.
"It is, so to speak, a reserve facility, so that if a site is attacked, we can continue the enrichment process," he said.
Earlier this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Tehran is making steady progress in its nuclear program, and warned that not even 100,000 UN Security Council resolutions will derail his country's nuclear ambitions.
The semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying "Iran is making progress in nuclear energy" while the US and its allies "only issue resolutions."
"Let them issue 100,000 resolutions," he said. "It's not important. Let them say what they want to."
Associated Press contributed to the story
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