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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran announced Friday it had developed faster centrifuges for uranium enrichment, signalling determination to press on with its nuclear work despite possible new U.N. sanctions sought by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Obama acknowledged that sanctions would not necessarily shift Iran’s behaviour, but said sustained world pressure could eventually prompt it to revise its nuclear calculations.

The head of the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would unveil the new “third generation” centrifuges later Friday.

“Iran will demonstrate third generation centrifuges today which have a separation power 10 times that of the first generation,” Ali Akbar Salehi said at a speech marking Iran’s annual national nuclear day, according to a text of his speech given to Reuters in advance.

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