Iran’s outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said 5,000 new centrifuges are ready to start operating at the country’s nuclear facilities. These are in addition to the 12,000 centrifuges already in operation.
“12,000 centrifuge machines are now running in our nuclear sites and 5,000 new centrifuges are ready to start operation,” the hardline president told the country’s IRIB1 TV.
The development has come despite Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), expressing concern over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
The IAEA said in June that Tehran was violating international regulations by increasing the number of centrifuges.
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