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Article: Iran has 4,000 working centrifuges: official
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 29, 2008
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Iran has 4,000 working centrifuges: official
TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali-
Reza Sheikh Attar said that Iran has almost 4,000 centrifuges
operating in Natanz enrichment facilities, the official IRNA news
agency reported on Friday.
Attar said that 3,000 more centrifuges are in the stage of
installation, after visiting Natanz enrichment facilities on Aug.
19.
"Had westerners become certain that the resolutions would bring
us down to our kneels, they would have definitely intensified them
(the sanctions)," Attar was quoted as saying, referring to the UN
Security Council's anti-Iran resolutions.
The sanctions are futile and ineffective, he added, saying that ...