Iran denied on Friday that Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said Iran has 100 kg of enriched uranium material in storage, the official IRNA news agency said. Another Iranian news agency, ISNA, had earlier said Pourmohammadi made the remarks in a speech in south-western Iran late on Thursday.
The comments might have worried Western powers fearing Tehran is seeking to develop nuclear bombs. But the public relations office of the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by IRNA: "(Pourmohammadi) did not say anything about the amount of enriched uranium (or) the numbers of installed centrifuges ... Therefore, recent reports citing him are denied."