Iran's government has approved plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, the state broadcaster said on Sunday, a clear show of defiance after the UN nuclear watchdog rebuked Tehran over secret nuclear work. The new enrichment plants would be the same size as its main enrichment complex at Natanz and work would begin within two months, the broadcaster said. Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran should aim to produce 250-300 tonnes of nuclear fuel a year, it added. "Ten new enrichment plants will be built," the semi-official Mehr News Agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, as saying. State broadcaster IRIB said location of five the plants had already been decided and that work on these should start within two months. At the same time, the Atomic Energy Organisation should find suitable location for other five. The enrichment plant decision will aggravate tensions between the Islamic Republic and major powers seeking a diplomatic solution to a long-running dispute over Iranian nuclear work. Western powers suspect the Islamic Republic is seeking to develop nuclear bombs, and backed a UN-drafted nuclear fuel deal that was designed to allay international concern about Iran's atomic activities. Iran, the world's fifth-largest crude exporter says its atomic programme aims to generate electricity. Earlier, Iranian lawmakers urged the government to prepare a plan to reduce cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
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