Iran’s state-run channel on Thursday reported that its government has decided to build a new nuclear reactor near Zarghan, 670 kilometers south of Tehran. The new nuclear reactor will produce medical and agricultural isotopes. The exact date to build the reactor has not yet been announced but according to the news, it will have the same dimensions as the medical isotope reactor in Tehran.

A corner of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility (Photo: AFP/VOV)

The plan may provoke an aggressive response by the West which is suspecting Iran of developing nuclear weapons.