(AP/USA Today) Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, Alireza Jafarzadeh, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002, said Tuesday. He said the centrifuges are ready to be installed at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz. The UN nuclear watchdog agency IAEA previously said it was aware of the existence of 164 centrifuges at Natanz. "The [Iranian] regime has kept the production of these machines hidden from the inspectors while the negotiations with the EU have been going on over the past 21 months," Jafarzadeh said.
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