{"id":103875,"date":"2022-06-09T06:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=103875"},"modified":"2022-06-09T06:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:38:03","slug":"vienna-iran-has-begun-installing-advanced-ir-6-centrifuges-in-a-cluster-at-an-underground-enrichment-plant-in-line-with-a-long-standing-plan-and-now-intends-to-add-two-more-such-clusters-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/06\/09\/vienna-iran-has-begun-installing-advanced-ir-6-centrifuges-in-a-cluster-at-an-underground-enrichment-plant-in-line-with-a-long-standing-plan-and-now-intends-to-add-two-more-such-clusters-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Expands Advanced Centrifuge Work Underground, IAEA Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 VIENNA \u2014 <\/span>Iran has begun installing advanced IR-6 centrifuges in a cluster at an underground enrichment plant in line with a long-standing plan and now intends to add two more such clusters, or cascades, the United Nations nuclear watchdog told its member states on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The moves are described in a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report sent to member states shortly before the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution criticizing Iran for failing to explain uranium traces found at undeclared sites. Iran had warned of retaliation.<\/p>\n

The IAEA report was seen by Reuters and confirmed by the agency.<\/p>\n

Iran’s commercial-scale Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz is its biggest and was built underground, apparently to protect it from potential aerial bombardment.<\/p>\n

A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers only lets Iran use first-generation, IR-1 machines there, but as the deal unraveled in the wake of Washington’s withdrawal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump, Iran installed cascades of more efficient advanced centrifuges, like the IR-2m and IR-4.<\/p>\n

For months Tehran had held off on following through on its plan to install a cascade of IR-6 machines.<\/p>\n

“On 6 June 2022, the Agency verified at FEP that Iran had started to install IR-6 centrifuges in the aforementioned single cascade previously declared by Iran to the Agency,” the report said.<\/p>\n

Iran informed the IAEA in a letter received on June 6 of its intention to install two “new cascades” of IR-6 machines at the underground plant, the report said.<\/p>\n

“On 8 June 2022, the Agency also verified that installation of the two ‘new’ IR-6 cascades had yet to begin,” it added.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday before the board vote, Iran said it would shut down two IAEA cameras at an unspecified enrichment plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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