Since this story has gone through a complete news cycle without comment here, I figured it must have slipped past the cognoscenti here.

AP VIENNA, Austria
Iran is once again building centrifuges that can be used to make nuclear weaponry, breaking the UN nuclear watchdog agency's seals on the equipment in a show of defiance against international efforts to monitor its program, diplomats said Tuesday.

Iran has not restarted enriching uranium with the centrifuges -- a step that would raise further alarm.

The United States accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons and wants the UN Security Council to take up the issue. Iran denies the charge and says the centrifuges are part of a nuclear program aimed only at producing energy.


According to other reports, Iran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was going to break the seals, which maintans their compliance as a signer to the anti-proliferation treaty. Speculation is that Iran is trying to gain a "bargaining position" with the European diplomats that are meeting later this year to discuss Irans nuclear program.