Iran has announced plans to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent level when it transfers the work to the secretive Fordo plant later this year. The US has dubbed the move as provocative.Iran's uranium enrichment work is currently undertaken in the Natanz nuclear facility, visited regularly by IAEA inspectors. The announcement has brought swift condemnation from Western governments which questioned why Iran needed to up its production of uranium enriched to a level far higher than that necessary to fuel nuclear power stations, although still well short of the 90 percent plus level required for an atomic bomb.French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said that the announcement is a provocation. It heightens the existing concerns of the international community over the intransigence of the Iranian regime and its constant breaches of international law.