According to AFP, Cornel Feruta made the remarks in a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna today.
"These centrifuges are either installed or are being installed: Twenty two IR-4 centrifuges, one IR-5 centrifuge and thirty IR-6 centrifuges," according to the IAEA statement.
The IAEA Board of Governors kicked off a meeting a few minutes ago at the IAEA headquarters, and Feruta is slated to read a statement on the agency's agenda, including the status of monitoring Iran's nuclear program at a news conference.
The meeting takes place a day after Acting Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Iran on Sunday and held talks with Iranian officials.
Meanwhile a Wall Street Journal reporter Laurence Norman has announced the start of installing a next-generation of centrifuges in Iran.
"As mentioned earlier, Iran has now started preparing the ground for reinstallation if it’s IR-2Ms, the one more advanced type of centrifuge it has properly mastered. In addition, in a letter to the Agency dated 8 September, Iran informed the Agency that it would," Laurence Norman wrote in a tweet an hour ago.
The WSJ reporter added “reinstall the piping at two R&D lines to accommodate a cascade of 164 IR-4 centrifuges and a cascade of 164 IR-2m centrifuges.” Experts reckon Iran can do a cascade of IR-2Ms every 2 weeks so in 3 months all 1,008 machines could be back in place."
As a third step in Iran's reduction of commitments under the deal, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday it has activated 20 IR-4 and 20 IR-6 centrifuges for research and development purposes.
The third step comes after the Europeans failed to meet a 60-day deadline to meet Iran’s demands and fulfill their commitments under the deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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