The Times of Israel reports: “Iran has begun to activate several new and advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment in reaction to a resolution by the UN’s nuclear watchdog censuring the Islamic Republic, its parliament speaker said Sunday.

At a session of the Majles, Iran’s parliament, Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf slammed the resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors and said Iran had followed through on its threat to turn on the advanced enrichment machines.

‘The Islamic Republic of Iran’s reciprocal response to this political misuse of the Board of Governors was immediately put into action, and the deployment of a set of new and advanced centrifuges has begun,’ he said, according to quotes reported by Iran International.

Activating new centrifuges further advances Iran’s nuclear program, which already enriches uranium at near-weapons-grade levels and boasts a stockpile enough for several nuclear bombs if it chooses to pursue them. The IAEA last announced in June that Iran had begun spinning new centrifuges, and planned to deploy more…”