Iran ready to defend nuclear installations

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran is ready to defend its nuclear facilities against any foreign attack.

"We are ... being continuously threatened with attacks on our nuclear facilities," the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran told delegates from 150 states at the annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"Such a vigilant nation, while taking every threat seriously, is in the meantime confident of its capacity to defend itself," he added referring to repeated Israeli threats against Iran's civilian nuclear installations.

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