Iran has 3,000 to 4,000 active centrifuges, a number within the limits allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday, as reported by the Tasnim news agency.
The rare announcement of specific data on Iran's nuclear program came days after the country's nuclear chief said Iran had completed a facility to build advanced centrifuges.
Iran has said it will increase its capacity to enrich uranium if the nuclear pact collapses as a result of the U.S. pullout in May.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
The deal allows Iran to operate up to 5,060 first-generation centrifuges for 10 years at its Natanz plant and 1,044 first-generation centrifuges at its underground Fordo enrichment plant.
"The number of active centrifuges has been reduced after the nuclear deal," Larijani said, according to Tasnim.
"When we agreed and announced that research should be continued, at that time we had 9,000 centrifuges working. Now the number of them has reached approximately 3,000 to 4,000."
Before the agreement, Iran had 20,000 centrifuges at Natanz and Fordo, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The remaining signatories – Russia, China, Germany, France and the U.K. – are trying to salvage the accord.
"America and Israel have a program against Iran and they scrapped a deal they requested," Larijani said, according to Tasnim.
"After America withdrew, European leaders asked that Iran not give a quick reply to this action and they asked for time, which is passing now."
The remaining powers say the deal is the best hope of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. Iran says its nuclear program is for electricity generation and other peaceful purposes.
"The remaining members of the deal must take appropriate steps to guarantee Iran benefits from the deal," Tasnim quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's permanent envoy to Vienna-based international organizations, as saying Wednesday.
Separately, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned a White House statement on Tuesday accusing the Islamic Republic of not preventing attacks in recent days on the U.S. Consulate in Basra and the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad.
Protesters set fire to Iran's consulate in Basra last Friday.
The statement lacks credibility and is "astonishing, provocative and irresponsible," Qassemi said, according to the IRIB news agency.
"[U.S.] policies in Iraq have not had any result other than creating insecurity and instability. And the conditions of the recent unrest in Iraq, including the attack and burning of the consulate building of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Basra, is a result of these policies," Qassemi said.
