(Reuters) Fredrik Dahl - Getting Iran to stop higher-level uranium enrichment is expected to be a priority for world powers when they meet with Iran in Baghdad next week. Western diplomats say Iran's production of uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20%, which it started two years ago, seems to have remained steady in recent months after a major escalation of the work in late 2011 and early this year. "It is still going strong. I hear it is unchanged," said one diplomat accredited to the UN nuclear watchdog which regularly inspects Iran's declared atomic sites. "With installation work going on, at some point there will be an increase."
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