3,000 centrifuges have started operation in the last few days and the number of Iran’s operative centrifuges will increase to 50,000 in the next two years, an Iranian MP said on Thursday.

Iran’s former President Seyed Mohammad Khatami Friday blasted western countries for politicizing Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.

Iranian foreign ministry here on Friday voiced its strong protest at a recent court ruling issued by a British judge for the extradition of a former Iranian diplomat to the US on charges of the purchase of a number of night-vision binoculars.