{"id":2182,"date":"2006-08-25T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T07:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/nuclear\/2182-group-says-tehran-has-advanced-centrifuges"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:23:51","slug":"group-says-tehran-has-advanced-centrifuges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/group-says-tehran-has-advanced-centrifuges\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Says Tehran Has Advanced Centrifuges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-29699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/08\/nuke.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" style=\"float: right\" alt=\"Group Says Tehran Has Advanced Centrifuges \" title=\"Group Says Tehran Has Advanced Centrifuges \" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/nuke.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/nuke-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>RadioFreeEurope, RadioLiberty &#8211; An exiled Iranian opposition group claims Tehran has already built 15 P-2 centrifuges and could have hundreds more ready next year.<\/p>\n<p>The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) says the advanced technology could help Iran dramatically speed up uranium enrichment and eventually lead to atomic-bomb material.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of NCRI&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohadessin, told a news conference in Paris today that his group has located what it believes is a secret production site for P-2 centrifuges near Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Mohaddessin further claims blueprints for the P-2 centrifuges were provided to Iran in 1995 by a black-market network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, then Pakistan&#8217;s leading nuclear scientist.<\/p>\n<p>NCRI, which is widely believed to be a front group for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People&#8217;s Mujahedin) of Iran, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2002, the group was among the first to alert the world of Iran&#8217;s uranium-enrichment activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RadioFreeEurope, RadioLiberty &ndash; An exiled Iranian opposition group claims Tehran has already built 15 P-2 centrifuges and could have hundreds more ready next year. 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