Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi, denied on Friday allegations of a clandestine underground atomic site near the country’s capital of Tehran, the local satellite Press TV reported.
Iranian Paris-based dissident group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said Thursday in Washington that it had discovered a secret underground uranium enrichment site in Abyek, about 120 km (70 miles) northwest of Tehran which the country started building in 2005.
“We don’t have such a facility, if they have any details they should inform us so that we can thank them,” Salehi was quoted as saying.
The country has plenty of facilities that, for example, sterilize agricultural products using nuclear technology which do not fall into the nuclear plant category, he said.
Currently, Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility is enriching uranium to a level of 20 percent and another facility around Qom, Fordo, is under construction.
