Fresh off the high of capturing the UK Sailors, Ahmadinejiad refocuses on expanding his nuclear program.
Iran is prepared to start "industrial scale" enrichment of uranium, the vice president said Monday, expanding a key nuclear process that the United Nations has demanded the country halt.
The announcement came as Iran celebrated the one-year anniversary of its first success in enriching small amounts of uranium at its Natanz enrichment facility in central Iran.
"Now we are entering the mass production of centrifuges and starting to launch industrial scale enrichment, another step toward the flourishing of Islamic Iran," Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh said at a ceremony at Natanz.
Aghazadeh, who heads Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, did not elaborate. Industrial-scale enrichment is the term Iran uses to mean a capability to produce greater levels of nuclear fuel - which would suggest Iran has increased the number of centrifuges working at Natanz.
Now he wants to hold the UN hostage.
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