Iran says no new atomic centrifuges installed-IRNA

TEHRAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) Iran has not installed any new atomic centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment facility, an Iranian official was quoted as saying today, denying a report that installing 3,000 such machines had begun.

''No new centrifuge machine has been installed in Natanz facility,'' Hossein Simorgh, the head of public affairs at Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, was quoted as saying by Iran's IRNA news agency, responding to earlier comments by a member of parliament.

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