Iran has reached a key target of 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, vowing to ignore UN resolutions calling for a halt to Tehran's sensitive nuclear work.
"We have now reached 3,000 machines," a defiant Ahmadinejad told a rally in the northeastern city of Birjand.
It was not the first time that the president had boasted that Iran had 3,000 centrifuges up and running.
"Now it has put into operation more than 3,000 centrifuges and every week we install a new series" of centrifuges, Ahmadinejad said on September 2.
The number is a key milestone because scientists say that in ideal conditions it is sufficient to produce enough enriched uranium in one year to make a single nuclear bomb.
The hardline president also said that Iran "could not care less" about UN Security Council resolutions aimed at freezing Tehran's nuclear drive.
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