Emboldened Iran Says It Now Runs More Than 5,000 Centrifuges

Iran has more than 5,000 centrifuges to process uranium at its enrichment plant,
its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the country's latest defiance of U.N.
demands that it halt the controversial program.
 
The Iranian official,
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, said Iran will continue to install centrifuges and enrich
uranium to produce nuclear fuel for the country's future nuclear power plants.
The number of centrifuges is up from 4,000 Iran said were running in August at
the plant in the central Iranian city of Natanz...