Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran’s plan to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants was not aimed at confronting the UN atomic watchdog, which censured Tehran last month, state television website reported. He also said Iran will continue to build the new plants, adding that sites for five of the 10 units had been finalized.
  
“The news that we announced (about the new plants) was not to confront the board of the agency, as we had assigned the (Iranian) atomic energy organization to locate several sites (for the new plants) months ago,” the state television website quoted him as saying. “We recently even asked them (Iran’s atomic agency) about the delay” in identifying the sites, Ahmadinejad said, adding that Iran has always “acted on its decisions, which are definite.”