No proof Iran running 3,000 centrifuges: diplomats
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that Iran has 3,000 centrifuges running is not backed up by evidence, diplomats familiar with U.N. inspections said.
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Despite promises to freeze its nuclear programs, Iran has continued to convert uranium for enrichment, diplomats in Washington and Vienna said yesterday, a situation that they said signals
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TEHRAN - Iran's leaders issued dual defiant statements yesterday, with the president announcing that the nation had 3,000 active centrifuges to enrich uranium, and the top ayatollah appointing a new Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander who once advocated military force against students.
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Shrugging off the threat of tougher U.N. sanctions, Iran has set up more than 300 centrifuges in two uranium enrichment units at its underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday.
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Iran installs 328 centrifuges at two uranium enrichment sites at its Natanz complex, Western diplomats say.
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VIENNA -- Iran has set up two cascades of 164 centrifuges each in its underground nuclear plant, laying a basis for full-scale enrichment of uranium and upping the stakes in a standoff with the West, European diplomats said yesterday.
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Iran has been testing parts for machines  that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, despite a  promise to temporarily refrain from all such activities,  Western diplomats said on Thursday.
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AUSTRIA VIENNA -- Technical crews have hauled centrifuges into Iran's vast underground complex in Natanz and are on the threshold of launching a program that could be used to create nuclear arms, diplomats said yesterday. Hundreds of technicians have been "working feverishly" to install centrifuges and support equipment to enrich uranium, said officials from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. ...
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Iran has not put into prohibited activities any nuclear materials it declared to the UN atomic watchdog, the watchdog said on Monday, but it could not rule out the existence of covert nuclear work.
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TEHRAN/VIENNA  - Iran said Wednesday it has  cleared up all major outstanding ambiguities over its nuclear  program to reassure the world it was not trying to make an  atomic bomb, but diplomats at the U.N. disagreed.
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A secret CIA report says there is no proof that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, a US magazine article says.
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Iran had sought to have 20 centrifuges exempted from its suspension of its nuclear program, arguing in talks at the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog agency that their use would be limited to research and development.
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An official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran has obtained &quot;a few tons&quot; of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a key component of nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran had met a planned target of installing and running 3,000 atomic centrifuges used in enriching uranium, Iranian news agencies reported.
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Iran has requested that it be permitted  to continue conducting "research and development" with  centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for  nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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TEHRAN/VIENNA  - Iran said on Wednesday it has  cleared up all major outstanding ambiguities over its nuclear  program to reassure the world it was not trying to make an  atomic bomb, but diplomats at the U.N. disagreed.
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Statements made by Iranian officials on Tuesday confirmed earlier reports that uranium enrichment processes had begun in Iran and that UN pressure would not divert Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program.