Iran boosts advanced uranium enrichment capacity - IAEA

Iran has installed about 1,000 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and plans to test them, a U.N. nuclear report showed, a development likely to worry Western powers hoping for a change of course under the country's new president.          

The International Atomic Energy Agency's quarterly report - the first since relative moderate Hassan Rouhani won Iran's June presidential election - also said the Islamic state had started making fuel assemblies for a reactor which the West fears could yield nuclear bomb material. Iran denies any such aim.

This as the U.N. atomic agency and Iran will hold a new round of talks in late September over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, the first such meeting since relative moderate Hassan Rouhani took office as Iranian president.
   
The meeting has been set for Sept. 27, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
 
 
REUTERS