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The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has produced close to 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium.

If that material were to be enriched further, experts say it would probably be enough to make a single atomic bomb.

The achievement is largely symbolic at this point.

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Iran is to urge Opec to agree another cut in production to boost the price of oil, a top Iranian oil official says.

Iran invites Brazil, which recently announced major untapped oil sources offshore, to join oil producers' cartel Opec.

AP - A government spokesmwoman in Kyrgyzstan says 71 people are dead after a passenger plane bound for Iran crashed shortly after taking off.

Iran has launched its first domestically-produced satellite into space, the country's media says.

Oil hit a record trading high Friday as tensions with Iran, the possibility of renewed violence in Nigeria and a planned labor strike in Brazil threatened already tight crude supplies.