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On January 31, Iran announced plans to enhance uranium enrichment. It told IAEA officials it intends to use new IR2m centrifuges.
An agency communication said:
"The Secretariat of the Agency received a letter from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) dated 23 January 2013 informing the Agency that 'centrifuge machines type IR2m will be used in Unit A-22' at the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz."
It's Tehran's main enrichment facility. It's used to enrich uranium to 5%. Faster enrichment runs counter to Western demands. They want Iran to abandon its legitimate rights altogether.
Dozens of other nations have similar nuclear operations. Demands to suspend activities don't follow. Tehran alone is targeted. It's solely for political reasons.
On January 29, IAEA officials asked Iran to provide technical and other information about its plans. The unit Tehran plans to upgrade can house over 3,000 centrifuges.
International Institute for Strategic Studies nuclear expert Mark Fitzpatrick said upgraded centrifuges could be "a most unfortunate game changer."
It depends on the number installed. "If Iran introduces them in a large scale, the timeline for being able to produce fissile material for nuclear material would be significantly reduced," he said.
Tehran does so for power generation and medical research. Its program is peaceful. Claiming otherwise is false.
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