(AFP) A group close to the Iranian opposition in exile said Thursday it has located an industrial site near Tehran that produces components for centrifuges used to enrich uranium. The Taba site has been in operation for four and a half years, Alireza Jafarzadeh said at a news conference in Washington, citing information gathered by the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) opposition group. Taba, which in Persian stands for Iranian Cutting Tools Factory, produces "aluminum casing, magnets, molecular pumps, composite tubes, centrifuge bases," he said. The site was in Karaj in Tehran's western suburbs. He said there was also another factory for making centrifuge components in Sahfizadeh, near Qazvin, 130 km. west of Tehran.
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