TEHRAN — Iran has tested two new types of uranium enrichment centrifuges with a higher capacity than those now in use, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.
Speaking about Iranian nuclear progress, Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech that new centrifuges "with a capacity a few times higher than the existing centrifuges" had been tested.
Western powers suspect Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing bombs and has demanded that Tehran halts sensitive enrichment activity, which can have both civilian and military uses. Iran denies the charge.
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