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Iran and the West clash over IAEA report on Fordow nuclear plant

The Fordow nuclear site, which is dug into the mountains to protect it from potential attacks, in November saw a boost in enrichment of uranium to 60 percent [File: Michael Gruber/AP Photo]

Tehran, Iran – Iran and the Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal have once more clashed over the country’s nuclear programme, this time after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment site.

The global nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on Wednesday leaked by Western media that the interconnection between two cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges at Fordow had been changed in a way that was “substantially different” from what Iran had declared.

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