The Washington Post, on Tuesday, March 11, in an article looked into some documents revealed about Iranian regime’s clandestine nuclear program. Part of the article reads:

Iranian nuclear engineer Mohsen Fakhrizadeh lectures weekly on physics at Tehran ’s Imam Hossein University. Yet for more than a decade, according to documents attracting interest among Western governments, he also ran secret programs aimed at acquiring sensitive nuclear technology for his government.

Experts at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly invited Fakhrizadeh to tea and a chat about Iran ’s nuclear work. But for two years, the government in Tehran has barred any contact with the scientist, who U.S. officials say recently moved to a new lab in a heavily guarded compound also off-limits to U.N. inspectors.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a major opposition group that claims to have informants inside Iran’s government, contends in materials provided to The Washington Post that nuclear weapons design work persists and has migrated to universities and schools.

The US government officials and weapons experts acknowledge concerns over Iran’s refusal to answer questions or explain what key scientists are doing now.

Fakhrizadeh is prominent in several of the documents, according to two officials who have seen them. A personnel chart listed him as the senior authority overseeing all the research projects. Another paper, purportedly signed by Fakhrizadeh, establishes spending guidelines for the research programs, while a third sets rules for communication among scientists, suggesting, for example, that researchers avoid putting their names on correspondence that might eventually become public, according to a Europe -based diplomat who viewed the documents.
Fakhrizadeh, 47, who became a Revolutionary Guard Corps member after the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, is a former leader of the Physics Research Center, which U.N. officials say was heavily involved in drawing up plans and acquiring parts for Iran’s first uranium enrichment plant. He was among eight Iranians placed under international travel and financial restrictions under the terms of a U.N. resolution adopted last year because of his alleged ties to “nuclear or ballistic missile” research, U.N. records show.
According to the Iranian opposition group, in addition to holding the university post, Fakhrizadeh recently was appointed the director of a new Center for Readiness and New Defense Technology, which is in Tehran and is under direct military command. Several of his deputies have been reassigned to nuclear departments at ostensibly civilian schools such as Shahid Beheshti University, also in Tehran.
“Fakhrizadeh is a key person, but he is not the only player,” said Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the opposition group’s foreign affairs committee.