Iran moves some centrifuges to underground site

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has moved some of its centrifuge machines to an underground enrichment site that offers better protection from possible airstrikes, the country's vice president said Monday.

Engineers are "hard at work" preparing the facility in Fordo, which is carved into a mountain to protect it against possible attacks, to house the centrifuges, Fereidoun Abbasi was quoted as saying by state TV.

Abbasi, who is also Iran's nuclear chief, did not say how many centrifuges have been moved to Fordo nor whether the machines installed are the new, more efficient centrifuges Iran has promised or the old IR-1 types.

Uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran's dispute with the West, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel or materials for bomb.

[MADem]

1. Bunker busters might still reach 'em, if software hackers don't, first. NT

[NightWatcher]

2. We're running out of places to bomb. After Syria this Fall, I wouldn't want to be Iran