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"With great honour, I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale," Mr Ahmadinejad told the audience assembled at Natanz to mark Iran's nuclear technology day.
He did not say how many centrifuges - the machines that spin uranium gas in order to enrich it to levels needed for fuel - were now operational at Natanz.
Iran announced in February that it had set up two cascades of 164 centrifuges each at Natanz. It said it planned to have 3,000 centrifuges by the end of last month.
The most sensitive areas at Natanz, deep underground, are thought to be halls that can hold up to 50,000 centrifuges.
Mr Ahmadinejad again asserted Iran's right to nuclear development for peaceful purposes, and said that progress was "irreversible".
He also warned that Iran would have no choice but to review its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if further pressure was applied by the West."
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