IRAN'S URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

* 2003: Enrichment programme that had been hidden for 18 years is uncovered by IAEA.
* Feb 2006: Iran reported to Security Council.
* 5 Feb 2007: Diplomats confirm Iranian claims to have set up more than 300 centrifuges in two cascades.
* 9 April: Iran claims to be enriching uranium on an "industrial scale". IAEA and Russian officials are sceptical.
* 19 April: IAEA document confirms that Iran running more than 1,300 centrifuges in eight cascades.
* 2 September: Iran claims to have 3,000 centrifuges running.
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