Iran has stopped questionable nuclear centrifuge testing: IAEA

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/20/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSKBN0LO1AE20150220

Iran has stopped questionable nuclear centrifuge testing: IAEA
By Shadia Nasralla
VIENNA Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:00am EST

(Reuters) - Iran has refrained from expanding tests of more efficient models of a machine used to refine uranium under a nuclear agreement with six world powers, a U.N. report shows, allaying concerns it might be violating the accord.

Tehran's development of advanced centrifuges is sensitive because, if successful, it could enable it to produce potential nuclear bomb material at a rate several times that of the decades-old version of the machine now in use.

An interim accord in 2013 between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia stipulated Tehran could continue its "current enrichment R&D (research and development) practices", implying they should not be stepped up.

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A confidential document by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), distributed among its member states on Thursday and obtained by Reuters, showed the IR-5 had been disconnected.

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1. CIA provided the older model, the P-1 and P-2, through AQ Khan as part of Operation Merlin.

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The AQ Khan centrifuges were essentially junk discarded by Pakistan from its own program that was financed by Saudis and CIA Director Bush, who entered into the the Safari Club agreement in 1976 to finance the "Islamic atomic bomb", Saudi paramilitary operations (that morphed into AQ, and BCCI as the dark money laundry to finance these projects.

Since the late 1980s, this defective uranium enrichment kit and designs had been been peddled on the global black market by Khan, who for some reason, was never arrested even though there happened to be an Interpol warrant out for him since 1975. This effectively slowed down the nuclear programs of several countries, including North Korea, which wasted tens of millions of dollars and years of development time stumbling down this blind alley.

One of the first treasonous acts of the neocons after Bush took office was outing the CIA counterproliferation effort that was peddling these relatively ineffective second-hand Pakistani centrifuges to Iran and several other countries.

See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x4659;