Iran installs 328 centrifuges at atomic site: sources
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Iran has installed 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 on Monday.
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Shrugging off an ultimatum from the U.N. nuclear agency, Iran revealed Tuesday that it started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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Iran has requested that it be permitted to continue conducting &quot;research and development&quot; with centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Iran has agreed after several months to  allow U.N. inspections of a military site where Washington  believes work linked to nuclear bomb-making was carried out,  the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.  The inspection will be part of the U.N. investigation into  allegations Iran has carried out work linked to nuclear  'weaponization,' the process of testing or assembling a warhead  and attaching it to a delivery system.  "We haven't stumbled on any weaponization activities, although  we are trying to visit the different sites, including military  sites," Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic  Energy Agency (IAEA), told Reuters in an interview.
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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 on Monday.
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Iran has begun putting down piping and electric cables for its underground uranium enrichment plant, with hundreds of workers being employed to move ahead quickly with the program that can be misused to make nuclear arms, diplomats said Friday.
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Iran has made a last minute request to operate dozens of centrifuges, despite their plan to halt to all uranium enrichment activities.
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Tehran requests EU allow it to conduct nuclear tests despite recently signed agreement to forgo them. The Islamic republic requested on Wednesday that it be allowed to operate dozens of centrifuges &quot;for research
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Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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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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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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Technicians have assembled two small uranium enrichment units at Iran's underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday. The move underscored Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council ban on the program, which can be used to create nuclear arms.
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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 ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment &#151; a possible pathway to nuclear arms &#151; and has instead expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday. The finding paves the way for new U.N. sanctions.
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Iran has started construction of a domestically built nuclear power plant, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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VIENNA, Feb. 13 -- Iran's new-generation advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats said Wednesday.
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THE NEWS: Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons.