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Lawmaker: Iran installing 3,000 centrifuges
Move at uranium enrichment plant 'stabilizes Iran's capability' for nukes
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:31 p.m. ET Jan 27, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has begun installing 3,000 centrifuges, a top lawmaker said Saturday.

Alaeddin Boroujerdi said the installation of 3,000 centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant "stabilizes Iran's capability in the field of nuclear technology," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

"We are right now installing 3,000 centrifuges," Boroujerdi, the head of the Iranian Parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, was quoted as saying by IRNA.

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