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IAEA inspectors "have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before." Iranian Shia are increasingly looking to Najaf's Ayatollah Sistani for guidance, in defiance of the Khomeinist model. Iran has detained an American - Iranian scholar for "spying for the US and Israel and for attempting to launch a democratic revolution in the country."