Iran announced that it will join the “world nuclear club” within a month and will be capable of deterring possible attacks on the country, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
“No country would even think about attacking Iran after Iran’s membership in the club,” said Behzad Soltani, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, according to the report.
Soltani added that the construction of a 360 megawatt nuclear power plant and a 40 megawatt research reactor in Iran’s central city of Arak are 70 percent finished.
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