Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is to activate several thousands of its domestically manufactured advanced centrifuges in response to the United Nations nuclear agency’s recent Western-backed resolution against the country.

According to The Iran Project, The top diplomat made the remarks to his Spanish counterpart J​osé Manuel Albares Bueno on the sidelines of a meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in the city of Cascais in southwestern Portugal on Tuesday.

Araghchi said the retaliatory measure was to come in reaction to the UK, France, and Germany’s forwarding the United States-backed resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Board of Governors and the body’s adoption of the resolution, which took place on Friday.

He considered the European trio’s policy towards the Islamic Republic to be “confrontational and meddlesome,” calling the approach unjustifiable and unconstructive.