Tensions escalate as Iran continues to step up nuclear programme

Hundreds of workers in Iran have set up piping, control panels and electric cables for Tehran’s underground uranium enrichment plant, diplomats said yesterday.

Tensions escalate as Iran continues to step up nuclear programme

It is the final step before installing equipment that countries fear could be used to make nuclear arms.

The move marks an escalation of the confrontation between Tehran and the world’s major powers over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme and will likely spur US efforts to sharpen existing UN sanctions slapped on Iran for its defiance of a Security Council demand that it freeze enrichment efforts.

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