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Eight killed, 50 hurt in Iran mosque blast AFP NEWS AGENCY
Bomb explodes in Iranian mosque, 8 killed REUTERS The Fars news agency in Iran at 3pm GMT announced that in the Iranian city of Shiraz a bomb exploded in the Shohada mosque killing 8 people, injuring 80 people. Thelondailynews.com which yesterday revealed an imminent attack on Iran by the US and Israel believes that this is stage one in the confrontation.
The rumours that US, UK and Israeli military troops readiness is now at its highest is consistent with the actions of Iran, publicly announced statement today on its nuclear capabilities. The following announcement by the Iranians that 3 new centrifuge cascades had been installed at its Natanz uranium enrichment complex, in central Iran in effect rendering Iran now a defacto a nuclear power.
Iran Installs 3 Centrifuge Cascades - FARS News agency
"TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran said yesterday Iranian experts had installed almost 500 more centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment complex, in central Iran.
Three new cascades of 164 centrifuges have been installed in Natanz facility and are working," an unnamed official told the Islamic Republic News Agency. "These centrifuges are P1 type.
Iran launched 3,000 centrifuges, a basis for industrial scale enrichment, in the Natanz facility last year. But they are the 1970s-vintage P1 design, prone to breakdown.
Thus, Iranian experts have now begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at Natanz facility, while they have just begun testing an advanced home-made centrifuge in the same facility.
Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, on Friday denied reports that Iran was having difficulties in running its centrifuges at full capacity.
There are no technical problems regarding the development of centrifuges," he told IRNA. Iran says it plans eventually to have 54,000 centrifuges to help produce fuel for a planned network of power plants.
The US-led West claims that Iran is trying to covertly produce nuclear bombs under cover of a civilian program, but it has never presented any corroborative documents or any evidence to prove its allegations to international bodies." FARS News Agency Iran.
The bomb explosion in the city of Shiraz which is approximately 180 miles south of the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz may have been instigated by intelligence agencies working for the West, according to reliable sources contacted by thelondondailynews.com in Washington this evening.
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