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NCRI \u2013 The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the Iranian regime \u201cis redoubling its efforts to enrich uranium by upgrading the equipment at its nuclear facilities, after its enrichment program was severely disrupted by a computer virus, according to diplomats familiar with a new assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n
The IAEA believes the regime is seeking to replace thousands of centrifuges it has been using to enrich uranium with more modern, carbon-fiber centrifuges that can enrich nuclear fuel at about five times the speed of Iran’s previous equipment, WSJ said citing the diplomats.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Washington Post reported, that the National Intelligence Director James Clapper told the US Senate Intelligence Committee, \u201cWe see a disturbing confluence of events – an Iran that is increasingly rigid, autocratic, dependent on coercion to maintain control and defiant toward the West, and an Iran that continues to advance its uranium enrichment capabilities along with what appears to be the scientific, technical and industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons if its leaders choose to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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