Iran moves equipment for making centrifuge parts to Natanz, IAEA says
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has moved all its gear to make centrifuge components from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz website simply six weeks after it arrange one other website at Isfahan to make the identical components, the U.N. nuclear watchdog stated on Wednesday.
“Company inspectors verified that these machines remained beneath Company seal at this location in Natanz and, due to this fact, weren’t working,” the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company stated in an announcement.
Iran granted IAEA inspectors entry to Karaj in December after a months-long standoff over entry that adopted what it stated was Israeli sabotage there. Iran then advised the IAEA in January it was transferring manufacturing to Isfahan.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy; Enhancing by Hugh Lawson)
