[AP] Iran has assembled hundreds of advanced centrifuges reflecting a possible intention to speed up uranium enrichment, diplomats say. One diplomat said more than 300 of the centrifuges have been linked up in two separate units in Iran's underground enrichment plant and a third was being assembled. He said the machines apparently are more advanced than the thousands already running underground. But a senior diplomat said that while the new work appeared to include advanced centrifuges, they were not the sophisticated IR-2 centrifuge that Tehran recently acknowledged testing.
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