Iran said Friday that the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proved that its nuclear programme does not have a military purpose.
"After 10 years of inspections, the latest IAEA report once again proved that there has been no military deviation and that the uranium enrichment process goes an without any problems and under full IAEA supervision," Tehran's IAEA envoy Ali-Asghar Soltanieh told ISNAS news agency.
The report released Thursday said Iran has installed new centrifuges in its Natanz facility in central Iran, bringing the total to 3,000, which would accelerate its uranium enrichment capability.
"The 20-per-cent enriched uranium is for making fuel for the research reactor in Teheran and producing radioisotopes needed by our hospitals (for cancer patients)," Soltanieh said.
The Iranian envoy said that negotiations with the IAEA could continue, and suspicions of a weapons programme should be removed. "The success of such talks depended on not politicizing them," he said.