Iran has made new generation of centrifuges - nuclear chief

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi in Vienna in this September 14, 2009 file photo. Iran has built a new generation of centrifuges which are currently undergoing technical tests, the new head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Herwig Prammer/Files)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has built a new generation of centrifuges which are currently undergoing technical tests, the new head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday.

"Iranian scientists have made new generation centrifuges that are currently undergoing necessary tests," he told a news conference, according to the official news agency IRNA.

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