Vienna, September 25: At a time when major world powers are mulling imposing tougher sanctions on Iran, some top bureaucrats have disclosed that Tehran has a second uranium enrichment plant.
The officials, who are believed to be close to Iran’s nuclear circuit, said on the condition of anonymity that Tehran has revealed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant in a letter written to the UN atomic watchdog, IAEA, chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
This letter was sent to the IAEA chief on Monday.
Iran is under three sets of UN Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment, which can make both nuclear fuel and warhead material. It had previously acknowledged having only one such facility.
At various occasions, Tehran has said that it has only one functional uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, some 250km south of Tehran.
–Agencies