Tehran, July 17, IRNA � Iran has sold 32 tons of heavy water to the United States and been paid by the US for the purchase, according to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali-Akbar Salehi.

In order to avoid the US reneging on the contract, the money was first received and the heavy water was then delivered to the US, Salehi was quoted as saying by the Rapporteur of Majlis Energy Commission Assadollah Qarekhani Alavestani.

Speaking during a Majlis briefing, Salehi said that some European governments have also placed order for Iranian heavy water.

By IRNA