Iran will enrich uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges at two nuclear facilities, U.N. atomic energy agency says, further raising tensions.

By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Iran has informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it plans to install more than 6,000 extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its enrichment plants and bring more of those already in place online,

Tehran has revealed its plans to expand its nuclear facilities in detail ahead of a meeting between Iranian and European diplomats in Geneva on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced in Vienna that Iran had informed it of plans to install several thousand additional centrifuges for uranium enrichment and also to commission thousands of centrifuges that have already been installed.

In what might be his final achievement as president, Joe Biden, his diplomats, and their French counterparts have brokered a ceasefire in the increasingly brutal yearlong war between Israel and Hezbollah’s Islamist militia in Lebanon.

With its longtime leaders dead, its military capabilities vastly diminished, and its fighters forced to retreat from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah emerges from its war with Israel facing unprecedented challenges.