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| Iran 'installing new centrifuges' | Iran 'installing new centrifuges' |
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| Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its main nuclear site in Natanz, state media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying. | Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its main nuclear site in Natanz, state media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying. |
| He made the comments during a visit to mark Iran's national nuclear day. | He made the comments during a visit to mark Iran's national nuclear day. |
| Iran already has some 3,000 centrifuges - which are used to enrich uranium - at the Natanz plant. | Iran already has some 3,000 centrifuges - which are used to enrich uranium - at the Natanz plant. |
| The US and Western allies accuse Iran of wanting to enrich uranium to build nuclear weapons, but Iran vehemently denies this. | The US and Western allies accuse Iran of wanting to enrich uranium to build nuclear weapons, but Iran vehemently denies this. |
| Iran says it is enriching uranium for a civilian nuclear energy programme and has continued to defy the UN Security Council's demand that it cease enrichment. | |
| Last month, the Council approved a third round of sanctions against Iran. | |
| Iran's national nuclear day commemorates the April 2006 anniversary of its first production of uranium that was sufficiently enriched to make atomic fuel. |