A senior Iranian envoy says he has officially told the U.N. nuclear agency that his country will enrich uranium to high levels.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh says Tehran will begin enriching up to 20 percent from its present stock of lower enriched uranium.
Soltanieh is Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. He told that the manufacture is meant for fuel for Iran's research reactor, which produces medical isotopes. World powers fear higher enrichment could ease the way for the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Iran has disregarded five U.N. Security Council resolutions that it freezes its enrichment program.
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