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Iran insists on keeping 20 centrifuges for research

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Nov 28, IRNA -- Iran Sunday insisted on its demand that 20 of 
its centrifuges be exempt from its pledged freeze of activities 
related to uranium enrichment, with one official rejecting news that 
the country had given up the demand. 
Head of the Supreme National Security Council`s committee for 
propagation policy-making, Ali Agha-Mohammadi, told IRNA that Iran had
sent a new letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE), in 
which it had maintained its demand to keep up the 20 centrifuges. 
"In the letter, Iran has insisted on keeping 20 centrifuges and 
continuing their operation and prevent (the IAEA) from sealing them," 
he said, as several news agencies alleged that Tehran had formally 
withdrawn its demand to exempt them from the freeze. 
"We have also announced in the letter that we (are ready) to reach
an agreement with the agency on the modalities of using these 
devices," Agha-Mohammadi added. 
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