Iran has doubled its capacity in an underground uranium enrichment facility, International Atomic Energy Agency said. But Iran Rejects IAEA report.

The number of centrifuges at the Fordow facility, about 130 km from Tehran, had more than doubled to   around 2,000 from around 1,000 in May.
The report also showed that Iran had produced nearly 190 kg of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, up from 145 kg in May.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Thursday indicated that despite threat of an Israeli or U.S. military strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities, the Islamic Republic was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site, buried deep underground to withstand any such hit.

 Tehran denies this, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity.

But Iranian lawmaker says UN watchdog report revealing doubled nuclear capacity at the underground Fordow facility is nothing but a "political move" aimed at overshadowing Non-Aligned Movement conference in Tehran.

"It seems that this report is a scenario for psychological warfare because Iran was able to show its authority and international position at the NAM summit," said  lawmaker Kazem Jalali  

Iran has portrayed its hosting of the summit of the 120-nation group of developing nations as proof that Western efforts to isolate it for its disputed nuclear programme have failed.