"....Iran has considerably slowed down the expansion of its contested uranium enrichment program, said a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The U.N. watchdog said Iran had increased the number of centrifuges refining uranium, a process that can produce fuel for civilian energy or potentially for atom bombs, by only 164 from 3,800 in November, an insignificant change....
Progress in the IAEA inquiry, which Iran regards as unjust and driven by American pressure, looks unlikely before Iran sees what new U.S. President Barack Obama has to offer under his stated policy of engagement with foes...."
Thursday, February 19, 2009
IAEA: "Iran markedly slows atom enrichment expansion...."
Reuters, here
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