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Iran progresses in building 360-megawatt nuclear power plant

Without foreign assistance, Iran is progressing in its plan to build a new 360-megawatt nuclear power plant, according to Mohammad Eslami, president of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization on Saturday.

"We started another work this year. We designed a 360-megawatt Iranian power station that we planned to build in partnership with other countries. We have decisively changed this plan to use the national potential," Mohammad Eslami was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

The project, according to Eslami, will turn Iran into a leading nuclear industry power. In addition, he invited Iranian construction companies to join the project.

Since 2008, Iran has been working on a project to build a 360-megawatt power plant in Darkhoveyn in the southwestern Khuzestan province.

Earlier this month, the IAEA declared that Iran plans to disconnect 20 IAEA surveillance cameras and other monitoring equipment.

This comes after the IAEA's Board of Governors adopted a draft resolution submitted by the US, France, UK, and Germany, criticizing Iran for what they claim were incomplete answers given to the IAEA on uranium traces at "undeclared sites". These claims were quickly refuted by the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, who said that Iran has neither secret or unwritten nuclear activities nor unreported nuclear sites.