MANAMA, December 12, 2009, SPA -- Iran needs up to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity, its foreign minister said on Saturday. "First I think we could just totally abandon the whole thing or we could propose something more moderate, a kind of middle way ... Iran has done that,” said Manouchehr Mottaki, addressing a security conference in Bahrain. "We need 10 to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity in our country," Mottaki was quoting as saying by Reuters. --SPA 11:27 LOCAL TIME 08:27 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/727175