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Article: IAEA opens emergency meeting on Iran; dissident says Tehran has new centrifuges
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- August 9, 2005
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SUSANNA LOOF
AP Worldstream
08-09-2005
Dateline: VIENNA, Austria
Iran's nuclear showdown with the West moved Tuesday to the U.N. nuclear agency, whose 35-nation board was considering a fresh warning to Tehran to suspend its atomic activities.
As diplomats debated ways to ease the standoff short of reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council, which could trigger punitive sanctions, an exiled dissident said he had evidence the country recently produced 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who helped uncover hidden details of Iran's program in 2002 that fueled U.S. suspicions it was trying to build a nuclear bomb, told The Associated Press the ...