The Iranian Resistant important revelationon Wednesday about the mullahs regime s secret nuclear projects is still in focus of the international media:
Time Magazine, in an article entitled “Group: Iran speeding up Nuke plan” wrote:
An exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons. “The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project,” said Mohammad Mohaddessin of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. The NCRI is the political wing of the People s Mujahedeen of Iran, which advocates the overthrow of government in Tehran.
Mohaddessin claimed that Tehran has established a command and research center near a Tehran university. And, he said, Iran is developing a nuclear warhead for use on medium-range missiles at a site on the southeast edge of Tehran. Mohaddessin also claimed that the regime obtained aid from North Korea. It was not possible to independently verify the NCRI claims. Mohaddessin said his group got the information from “hundreds” of reports and sources from within the Iranian regime, whom he did not name. He said some of the sources are within the nuclear project itself. An official of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said the agency was aware of the allegations. Mohaddessin said he had provided information to the IAEA on Tuesday.
The New York Times Wrote:
Mohaddessin claimed that Tehran has established a command and research center near a Tehran university. And, he said, Iran is developing a nuclear warhead for use on medium-range missiles at a site on the southeast edge of Tehran. Mohaddessin also claimed that the regime obtained aid from North Korea.
It was not possible to independently verify the NCRI claims. Mohaddessin said his group got the information from hundreds of reports and sources from within the Iranian regime, whom he did not name. He said some of the sources are within the nuclear project itself.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
T he Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran s controversial nuclear-fuel program has given the United Nations nuclear watchdog details of what the group says is a working nuclear-warhead-development facility.
The facility at Khojir, a defense-ministry missile-research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, according to Mohammad Mohaddessin, foreign-affairs chief for the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran.
He also said the NCRI has identified a guest house on a military compound near Khojir that the group says houses North Korean specialists working at the warhead facility. The information was finalized in recent weeks and is current, according to Mr. Mohaddessin.
It wasn t possible to verify any of the NCRI s claims independently. Yesterday, Mr. Mohaddessin passed the information, which includes satellite images, to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, and asked the agency to investigate.
An IAEA representative said the organization would check the NCRI s claim against the agency s own data and pursue it “if appropriate.”
The NCRI is the Paris-based political wing of the Mujahedin e-Khalq, an exiled military group that has been seeking to overthrow the current Iranian regime since the mid-1980s.
The commercial satellite images depict a system of heavy security within the Khojir site restricting access to the alleged nuclear-warhead facility. Visitors to the facility — which is known as “Eight-five hundred” — have to leave their cars and drivers behind at the car park, according to Mr. Mohaddessin. A car is then sent to collect the visitors, who pass through two checkpoints to get onto a road that ends at a small group of buildings cut into the hills about 1.25 miles away
The facility at Khojir, a defense-ministry missile-research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, according to Mohammad Mohaddessin, foreign-affairs chief for the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran.
He also said the NCRI has identified a guest house on a military compound near Khojir that the group says houses North Korean specialists working at the warhead facility. The information was finalized in recent weeks and is current, according to Mr. Mohaddessin.
It wasn t possible to verify any of the NCRI s claims independently. Yesterday, Mr. Mohaddessin passed the information, which includes satellite images, to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, and asked the agency to investigate.
An IAEA representative said the organization would check the NCRI s claim against the agency s own data and pursue it “if appropriate.”
The NCRI is the Paris-based political wing of the Mujahedin e-Khalq, an exiled military group that has been seeking to overthrow the current Iranian regime since the mid-1980s.
The commercial satellite images depict a system of heavy security within the Khojir site restricting access to the alleged nuclear-warhead facility. Visitors to the facility — which is known as “Eight-five hundred” — have to leave their cars and drivers behind at the car park, according to Mr. Mohaddessin. A car is then sent to collect the visitors, who pass through two checkpoints to get onto a road that ends at a small group of buildings cut into the hills about 1.25 miles away
Reuters
Reuters reported :An Iranian opposition group called on Wednesday for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to immediately inspect facilities in Iran which it said were at the core of an accelerated nuclear weapons programme.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran dismissed a December U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that Tehran stopped trying to make a nuclear warhead in 2003, shortly after the group first revealed the country s nuclear enrichment activity.
It charged that Iran had established a new command and control centre for the programme coded-named Lavizan-2 at Mojdeh on the southeastern outskirts of Tehran last April, near the site of a previous facility razed after its exposure.
The NCRI said the Iranian government was also actively pursuing production of nuclear warheads at a complex code-named B1-Nori-8500 at Khojir about 20 km (12 miles) further southeast.
At a Brussels news conference, NCRI foreign affairs chief Mohammad Mohaddessin said his information came from hundreds of sources including people working at the sites and within the offices of the Iranian leadership and bureaucracy.
He showed satellite images and called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the sites immediately and interview the scientists running them.
The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing the nuclear bomb. None of the essential work has been halted … All three parts have been speeded up, he said, referring to uranium enrichment, weaponisation and missile development.
We would like to urgently ask the IAEA … to immediately send inspectors to the sites, he said.
Time is running out to stop the regime acquiring a nuclear bomb. If we do not act today, tomorrow might be too late.
The Deutche Press Agency (DPA) reported: Iran has “speeded up” rather than halted its nuclear bomb programme and has already set up a command and control centre near Tehran, an exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday. The unverified allegation contradicts a December report by the US intelligence claiming that the Iranian regime had stopped its nuclear weapons development programme in 2003.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, an official of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said in a statement issued in Brussels that the group had passed on the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and had asked it to send its inspectors to the site.
“Lack of firmness by the international community has offered the regime the opportunity to get closer to obtaining the atomic bomb,” Mohaddessin said.
The EU Obswerver wrote: A leading Iranian exiled opposition group claimed on Wednesday (20 February) it has evidence that the Iranian government is still engaged in the development of nuclear weapons.
“The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing the nuclear bomb,” said Mohammad Mohaddessin, the chairperson of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) at a Brussels press conference.
After offering details of what they claim is an ongoing nuclear weapons programme, including satellite photographs of two previously uncovered sites, Mr Mohaddessin then lashed out at European policy toward Iran, accusing the EU of appeasement.
Referring to the “huge trade” between Europe and Iran, Mr Mohaddessin said: “The EU is trying to achieve security through appeasing the Iranian regime.”
“The EU is appeasing the Iranian regime and it is a disaster for the Iranian people. You remember what happened in the 1930s?
“They carried out exactly the same policy with Hitler that the EU is doing now with the Iranian regime.”
The NCRI spokesperson said that after April 2007, the Iranian regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project and for the first time established a centre for command and control for the completion of nuclear bombs.
At the first site, in the Noor suburb of Tehran, the command centre coordinates all the other sites that are involved in the production of nuclear weapons.
The command centre is situated across from the Malek Ashtar University, which the group says the school does not operate like a normal university and only has a handful of students.
“Rather, it is a centre for research and development of weapons that works in conjunction with the [command centre],” said Mr Mohaddessin.
The second site, a military-secured zone in Khojir region southeast of Tehran, is home to the government s project to manufacture nuclear warheads, the group says.
When quizzed on their sources and the provenance of the satellite photographs, the group said that they come from “hundreds of sources and reports” from within the country.
“The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing the nuclear bomb,” said Mohammad Mohaddessin, the chairperson of the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) at a Brussels press conference.
After offering details of what they claim is an ongoing nuclear weapons programme, including satellite photographs of two previously uncovered sites, Mr Mohaddessin then lashed out at European policy toward Iran, accusing the EU of appeasement.
Referring to the “huge trade” between Europe and Iran, Mr Mohaddessin said: “The EU is trying to achieve security through appeasing the Iranian regime.”
“The EU is appeasing the Iranian regime and it is a disaster for the Iranian people. You remember what happened in the 1930s?
“They carried out exactly the same policy with Hitler that the EU is doing now with the Iranian regime.”
The NCRI spokesperson said that after April 2007, the Iranian regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project and for the first time established a centre for command and control for the completion of nuclear bombs.
At the first site, in the Noor suburb of Tehran, the command centre coordinates all the other sites that are involved in the production of nuclear weapons.
The command centre is situated across from the Malek Ashtar University, which the group says the school does not operate like a normal university and only has a handful of students.
“Rather, it is a centre for research and development of weapons that works in conjunction with the [command centre],” said Mr Mohaddessin.
The second site, a military-secured zone in Khojir region southeast of Tehran, is home to the government s project to manufacture nuclear warheads, the group says.
When quizzed on their sources and the provenance of the satellite photographs, the group said that they come from “hundreds of sources and reports” from within the country.
The ANH Global News reported:
NCRI spokesman Mohammad Mohaddessin, said that Iran is developing a nuclear warhead for medium-range missiles and that Tehran is receiving aid from North Korea.
Speaking to a news conference, Mohaddessin said, “The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project,” adding that, “Lack of firmness by the international community has offered the regime the opportunity to get closer to obtaining the nuclear bomb.”
France 24 TV reported: Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, an exiled Iranian OPPOSITION group said Wednesday, giving details of what it claims is an operational nuclear-warhead development site.
The claims run counter to a US intelligence report released in December which said Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
“The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing a nuclear bomb,” said Mohammad Mohadessin, a leader of the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran.
He presented reporters in Brussels with information he said had been collected on two sites in Iran on top secret studies on nuclear warheads.
“The clerical regime (in Iran) has not ceased its nuclear weapons programme, rather it has expedited its activities and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has taken greater control of the programme,” said Mohadessin, chairman of the group s foreign affairs committee.
The declassified “key findings” provided ammunition to both sides in the international dispute over the best approach to Iran, and were expected to fuel rather than quench the often bitter US debate over Iran policy ahead of the November 2008 presidential elections.
US President George W. Bush at the time warned that using force was still an option to keep Tehran from getting nuclear arms.
“Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. And Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon,” he said at the time.
Mohadessin said Tuesday that for a while Iran had slowed down its weapons programme.
It had erased all traces of its earlier research centre in 2003 and moved over to Mojdeh, next to the Malek Ashtar university under the name “Field for Expansion of Deployment of Advanced Technologies,” he said