A substantial part of Uranium is mined in Province of Yazd

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi.

Mehdi Karimi, general manager of security and guardianship of Isfahan's Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) nuclear complex said: "The nuclear centrifuge starts with the discovery and mining of Uranium and a substantial part of this process takes place in the province of Yazd."

The Yazd branch of FARS, the regime-run news agency reported that Karimi in his Tuesday meeting with members of the Basij engineers of the province of Yazd added: "The Tabas area of Yazd Uranium mines has its own enrichment facilities within the complex. After mining the Uranium comes the enrichment process and the production of primary Yellow Cake takes place in the township of Ardakan [in the province of Yazd] and after that the end product is taken over to the Isfahan UCF factory. In 1992 during Mr. Rafsanjani's tenure as president, he signed a contract with the government of China; they claimed that it would take them 13 years to build us a UCF factory. However, in 1997 the Chinese were then threatened by Americans and were forced to withdraw under pressure. By 1999, with the great effort of our own internal forces, we, ourselves were able to complete the UCF factory within 3 years when those Chinese claimed they needed 13 years."