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Iran Operating Over 5,000 Centrifuges for Uranium Enrichment
[AP] Ali Akbar Dareini - Iran now has more than 5,000 centrifuges operating and enriching uranium, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Wednesday. Aghazadeh said the country will never suspend enrichment: "Suspension has not been defined in our lexicon." Also Wednesday, Iranian state television reported that the country successfully launched a second rocket into space, after the first such launch in February. The rocket, named "Kavoshgar 2" or Explorer 2, made it to the lower reaches of space and returned to earth 40 minutes later on a parachute.