Good News: Iran Boosts Uranium Enrichment Capacity

Those sanctions sure are persuading Iran from stopping to enrich uranium. No wonder Israel is preparing to deal with the matter itself. Guardian

Ali Reza Sheikh Attar, the deputy foreign minister, told Iran's official news agency that the country was operating 4,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant and preparations were under way to install more centrifuges.

"Right now, nearly 4,000 centrifuges are operating at Natanz enrichment plant," Attar said. "Currently, 3,000 other centrifuges are being installed."

Iran has said it is installing centrifuges to enrich uranium into fuel to power civil nuclear energy plants. The latest news will cause alarm in Washington, which has accused Tehran of seeking to enrich uranium for use in nuclear warheads.

This number of centrifuges takes Iran's enrichment capability beyond what is considered an experimental level towards an industrial scale, capable of producing enough enriched material for nuclear weapons.