DEBKAfile’s Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq’s Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials’ conclusion that Israel’s aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek Air Force over Crete in early June [...]

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The sprawling site, known as Natanz, made headlines recently because Iran is testing a new generation of centrifuges there that spin faster and, in theory, can more rapidly turn natural uranium into fuel for reactors or nuclear arms. The new machines are also meant to be more reliable than their forerunners, which often failed catastrophically.
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Diplomats say Islamic Republic installing new centrifuges in Natanz weapons facility in move said to show it has no intention of suspending nuclear program despite demands by UN Security Council
Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges in its main uranium enrichment plant, accelerating activity that could give it the means to make atom bombs in future [...]

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Iran is installing 3,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, a senior Iranian official told the semi-official news agency Mehr Thursday.
“Iran is in the process of installing 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz and currently has 1,600 centrifuges working,” said Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the deputy to top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
The statement confirms reports Wednesday [...]

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MOSCOW, April 17, 2007 (UPI) — Experts have two main questions about the situation in Iran: First, are the Iranians close to developing a nuclear bomb? And second, are the Americans going to start a war there?
Several thousand centrifuges are enough to enrich uranium to 90 percent and produce a nuclear bomb within a year. [...]

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With news yesterday that Iran has begun injecting uranium hexafluoride gas into 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, the Islamic nation could be less than one year away from being able to enrich weapons-grade uranium.
International reports persist that Iran has made improvements to the advanced P2 centrifuge designs it bought from the black market [...]

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April 10 (Bloomberg) — Iran said it is aiming to install 50,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium as part of its nuclear program, a day after announcing that the work has reached an industrial scale in defiance of United Nations instructions.
Iran’s aim is not only “to install 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility but [...]

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TEHRAN, April 1 (RIA Novosti) - Iran’s president promised Sunday to announce the Islamic Republic’s successes in developing its nuclear program.
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Many experts believe Iran could announce about the installation of new centrifuges for uranium enrichment in Natanz.
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