Iran plans major nuclear fuel expansion

Western powers fear Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing nuclear weapons capability with high-enriched uranium. Tehran denies the charge, saying it wants only lower-grade nuclear material for electricity generation.

Iran in November declared plans to build 10 new enrichment plants in a vast, defiant expansion of nuclear work after the IAEA rebuked it for erecting a second plant in secret.

(Additional reporting by Hashem Kalantari and Mark Heinrich in Vienna; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)