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Iran on Sunday claimed for the primary time to have used domestically mined uranium ore to creates the material needed for uranium enrichment. It called the step a main advance in its atomic program, sending a defiant message before a fresh round of talks on Iran’s suspect nuclear activities. Western specialist said the progress appeared to be more symbolic than substantive and did not bear instantly on whether Iran could accelerate its efforts at enriching uranium, which can fuel also reactors or atom bombs.

But Iran’s successful dispensation of uranium ore from a domestically mined source, which it has been working on for years, recommended the Iranians had found a way to bypass United Nations sanctions that ban them from bring in raw uranium. The announcement also reflected Iran’s meaning to show it remains undaunted in its pursuit of nuclear capability despite some significant fresh setbacks. Those setbacks include enlarged economic isolation from a range of United Nations sanctions.

The mysterious bombing attacks on two Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran last week and an recognition by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that some of Iran’s centrifuges, used to cleanse uranium, had been successfully singled out by Internet saboteurs using malignant software. The White House said Sunday that Iran’s announcement was not unpredicted but that it reinforced international doubts about Iran’s motives for enriching uranium at all.