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IRAN REPORTS 1,600 NUKE CENTRIFUGES

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran continues to report progress in its uranium enrichment program.

Iran has installed 1,600 gas centrifuges to produce enriched uranium. Officials said this marked an increase of 300 centrifuges over the last three weeks.

"Iran is installing 3,000 centrifuges in the Natanz facility and currently has 1,600 active centrifuges," Iranian Supreme National Security Council deputy secretary Abdul Reza Rahmani-Fazli said.

Rahmani-Fazli, deputy to Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Iran was moving rapidly to complete the installation of 3,000 centrifuges at the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. The official said more than 50 percent of the gas centrifuges were operating.

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