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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Defiant Iran reports nuclear advance before talks Reuters - 58 minutes ago Send IM Story Print By Parisa Hafezi and Hashem Kalantari GENEVA/TEHRAN - Iran announced what it called a major step forward in its nuclear programme on Sunday, showing determination to pursue it a day before talks in Geneva with world powers which fear Tehran may be seeking atom bombs. Nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would use domestically produced uranium concentrates, known as yellowcake, for the first time at a key nuclear facility, cutting its reliance on imports of the ingredient for nuclear fuel. "This means that Iran has become self-sufficient in the entire fuel cycle," Salehi said. Western analysts say Iran sometimes exaggerates its nuclear advances to gain leverage in its stand-off with the West. The announcement appeared timed to show Iran will not back down in a long-running battle over its nuclear programme before the meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Geneva where six powers are seeking assurances its atomic ambitions are peaceful. Salehi told a televised news conference that the announcement meant "we will be taking part in the negotiations with strength and power." He said the Geneva talks were for the benefit of the other countries, not Iran. "We want to create a graceful solution out of the political deadlock for those who have pressurised us." White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said the announcement was not unexpected since Iran has been trying to develop its own uranium programme for years. "However...this calls into further question Iran's intentions and raises additional concerns at a time when Iran needs to address the concerns of the international community," Hammer said. Before the Geneva talks, Hammer said, the United States and its allies are looking to see if Iran will enter into discussions "with the seriousness of purpose required to begin to address international concerns with its nuclear program." Iran says its nuclear programme is aimed at power generation while the West suspects Tehran seeks weapons capability, and has tightened sanctions on the Islamic state in recent months. Western diplomats say the sanctions are hurting Iran's oil-dependent economy despite the Tehran leadership's denials of any such impact, and they hope this will persuade them to enter serious negotiations about its nuclear programme. In Bahrain, General James Mattis, the Commander of U.S. Central Command, told a Gulf security conference he was "nowhere near pessimistic yet" about the prospects for resolving the Iranian nuclear issue with diplomacy, as opposed to using force, a so-called Plan B. "The idea that we would have to focus early on a plan B would actually undercut the commitment to plan A, which is to solve this using all diplomatic and economic means. I say this without any naivety; I recognise the role of military force, but at the same time I am nowhere near pessimistic yet," he said. Asked upon his arrival in Geneva whether he was optimistic about the talks, Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said: "Everything depends on the other party's attitude." "Is there any need to do that?" said another Iranian official, who declined to be named, when asked whether Iran's enrichment activities would be discussed at the meeting. Asked whether Sunday's yellowcake announcement was a signal that Iran would press ahead with its activities, he said: "Of course." Western powers want Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activity, which can produce fuel for nuclear power reactors or provide material for bombs if refined to a higher degree. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran's enrichment will not be discussed in Geneva, though it is the central concern of the six powers -- the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany -- that will be present. 'INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS' Analysts expect no breakthrough in Geneva, the first such meeting in over a year. At most, they believe, the gathering will recreate a climate conducive to negotiations and lead to more meetings that would tackle substantive issues. Last week's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, which Iran has blamed on Western intelligence services keen to impede its nuclear advances, could cloud the atmosphere for dialogue in the Swiss city. "Once again I am telling the ill-wishers and international criminals...that we are here and we are resisting and will continue our resistance," Salehi said. Sunday's announcement that Iran would use yellowcake, a uranium concentrate powder, processed in the country, at its Isfahan conversion plant was the first step in becoming entirely self-sufficient in nuclear fuel production, Salehi said, as progress was also being made developing domestic uranium mines. The country has previously used yellowcake bought from South Africa in the 1970s, but some Western analysts have said Iran may be close to exhausting its supply of this material. The enriched uranium required for use in nuclear reactors or weapons is produced in centrifuges that spin uranium hexafluoride gas UF6 at high speeds. The UF6 is derived from yellowcake, a concentrate processed from mined uranium ore. In its latest report on Iran's nuclear programme last month, the U.N. nuclear agency said no uranium hexafluoride gas had been produced at the Isfahan facility since August 2009. The International Atomic Energy Agency , which Iran on Saturday accused of sending spies of foreign intelligence services to Iran along with its inspectors, had no comment on Iran's latest announcement of nuclear advances. 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