1,044 Centrifuges Enriching Uranium in Fordow: Official

July 21, 2020

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Mehr News Agency

Abolfazl Amouei, spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in the Iranian Parliament, claimed that 1,044 first-generation centrifuges, divided into six cascades, were enriching uranium to 4.5 percent at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Amouei's comments followed a visit by Iranian parliamentarians to the Shahid Ahmadi Roshan (Natanz) and Shahid Ali Mohammadi (Fordow) nuclear sites. Regarding Natanz, Amouei stated that parliamentarians "observed first-, second-, and fourth-generation centrifuges in the nuclear site that were put in the enrichment chain."