Iran completes advanced centrifuges based on Pakistan's P-2

Iran has completed 15 advanced centrifuges designed to rapidly enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

They are manufacturing these units on their own.

WHERE?

Iranian opposition sources said the 15 were the first of hundreds of advanced centrifuges meant for production over the next year. The sources identified the centrifuges as the Pakistani-origin P-2. Until now, Iran reportedly employed cascades of the older P-1 centrifuges for uranium enrichment. The opposition sources said Teheran has been experimenting with the advanced P-2 model, which could enrich uranium four times faster than the P-1.

3 YEARS AT MOST, MAYBE AS LITTLE AS ONE.

"According to the information obtained by the Iranian resistance, at least 15 P-2 centrifuges have been assembled so far and are being tested," said Mohammad Mohaddesin, a senior Iranian opposition figure. "Our intelligence shows that in the next year, they will have hundreds of P-2 centrifuges."

Mohaddesin, foreign affairs committee chairman of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told a news conference in Paris on Aug. 24 that P-2 centrifuges are produced at a facility outside Teheran. Iran obtained the P-2 design from a Pakistani-led nuclear smuggling ring in the mid-1990s.

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