Tehran dismisses reports on secret nuclear site
19:27 10/09/2010
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's top nuclear official denied on Friday claims of a covert nuclear facility near the capital, Tehran, the Mehr news agency reported.
"We don't have such a facility," Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said referring to claims by the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization on Thursday that it had evidence of a new secret underground atomic site in the country.
"If they have any details they should inform us so that we can thank them," Salehi said.
The organization said that a uranium enrichment facility about 120 km west of Tehran was about 85% complete.
Salehi said the country has plenty of facilities using nuclear technology - for example, to sterilize agricultural products, which "do not fall into the nuclear plant category."
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