Iranian president unveils new centrifuges

TEHERAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled on Wednesday a new generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment.

In a live broadcast by state TV, a model of the fourth generation of domestically-made centrifuge was presented.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereidoon Abbasi, said in the ceremony that his country activated the first cascade of the new generation of centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Wednesday.