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This article covers developments since the IAEA director-general's report of 22 February 2008 on Iran's implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant UN Security Council resolutions. It states that since the previous report, Iran has continued to operate the original 3000-machine IR-1 unit at the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP). Installation work has continued on four other units as well. On 7 May 2008, two 164-machine IR-1 cascades of one of the four units were being fed with UF6, and another cascade of that same unit was in vacuum without UF6. The installation of the other 15 cascades at that unit is continuing. All nuclear material at FEP, as well as all installed cascades, remain under Agency containment and surveillance.