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This is an archive article published on April 9, 2008

Iran begins installing 6,000 new centrifuges

Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant...

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Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, defying the West which fears Tehran is trying to build nuclear bombs.

The United States and Israel said the move showed once again that Tehran intended to ignore UN Security Council demands to halt sensitive nuclear work.

France suggested major powers may have to toughen sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The Security Council has since 2006 imposed three rounds of limited sanctions on Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium, which can be used as fuel in power plants or provide material for nuclear weapons if refined much further.

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Iran, the world’s fourth largest oil exporter, says it wants nuclear power to generate electricity to meet booming demand.

“Today we have started the installation of 6,000 new centrifuges. I will announce more achievements tonight,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

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