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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/world/middleeast/12iran.html
Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment of Uranium
(New York Times) Nazila Fathi, David E. Sanger, and William J. Broad - Iran announced Tuesday that its nuclear engineers had advanced to a new phase in the enrichment of uranium, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a series of the country's ruling clerics declared that the nation would now speed ahead, in defiance of a UN Security Council warning, to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale. "Iran has joined the nuclear countries of the world," said Ahmadinejad during a large, carefully staged, and nationally televised celebration in Mashhad, which included video presentations of each step of the nuclear process that he declared Iran had mastered. "The nuclear fuel cycle at the laboratory level has been completed, and uranium with the desired enrichment for nuclear power plants was achieved."