Iran on Saturday confirmed it was producing components to make centrifuges -- the device which enriches uranium -- at a factory which it said was not secret as claimed by an opposition group.
"The factory mentioned by Monafeghin (hypocrites) is not a new discovery," state news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying, and referring to the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, the main armed opposition group fighting the Iranian regime.
"We manufacture components (in the factory), but it is in no way a secret," Salehi said when asked about PMOI's claim that Iran produces components for centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
On Thursday, PMOI spokesman in Washington Alireza Jafarzadeh claimed the Taba company site, west of Tehran, has been operating for four and a half years, citing information gathered by the group.
Taba, which in Persian stands for Iranian Cutting Tools Factory, produces "aluminium casing, magnets, molecular pumps, composite tubes, centrifuge bases," the spokesman said.
