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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Moves Machines for Making Centrifuge Parts to Natanz, Says UN Nuclear Watchdog

In this photo released on Nov. 6, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a truck carrying uranium hexafluoride gas leaves the Ahmadi Roshan uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, to the centrifuges at the Fordo nuclear facility. (AP)

Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday.

Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to Karaj in December to re-install surveillance cameras there after a months-long standoff that followed what Tehran said was Israeli sabotage that destroyed one camera and badly damaged another, prompting Iran to remove all four cameras.

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