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Iran rolls out new line of advanced centrifuges

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday his country would employ a new line of advanced centrifuges to speed up uranium enrichment, reducing the time it would take the Islamic Republic to acquire a nuclear weapon to under a year.

Rouhani said that Iran is rolling out IR-6 centrifuges, which operate at 10 times the speed of the IR-1s it currently has in use, but that soon it would employ IR-9s, which are capable of enriching uranium 50 times faster than the IR-1 model.

“Americans have no choice but to return from this path, and we will force them to do so with our resistance and steadfastness,” Rouhani said on a trip to Malaysia, reiterating the Iranian conviction that Americans and Israel were behind recent protests.

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Ever since leaving the 2015 nuclear deal terms behind, Iran had begun enriching uranium at 4.5%–above the 3.67% limit prescribed by the deal–and stockpiling 1,100 pounds of it in its low-enriched form, surpassing the deal’s 661-pound limit.

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