Meantime, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran has stepped up its production of a purer form of enriched uranium closer to weapons grade at a fortified mountain site.

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The first is that Iran is rapidly moving centrifuges to its once-secret site at Fordow, buried deep inside a mountain and possibly invulnerable to attack by conventional weapons.

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Some Europeans who went to wage jihad in recent years told of being asked for money by their hosts, having to purchase their weapons and being on the run from one mountain refuge to another.

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The district no longer includes a naval weapons station, Army fort, or a Marine mountain-warfare training center.

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The discovery of a plant for making potentially weapons-usable uranium, dug secretly into a mountain on a military compound near the city of Qom, means that the test of their sincerity is Iran.

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