In April 2009 the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1) proposed to restart negotiations with Tehran without first requiring a freeze on Iranian uranium-enrichment activities. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answered positively while extolling the claimed successes of the Iranian nuclear programme: completion of a fuel-pellet fabrication plant, 7,000 operational centrifuges in Natanz, and the testing of two new types of centrifuge. Meanwhile, Israeli officials and pundits continue to suggest that Israel will attack Iranian nuclear sites should the Natanz expansion continue.
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