Daily Telegraph, wrote that according to the latest western intelligence reports, Iranian regime appears to have intensified its efforts to conceal significant parts of its nuclear development programme.
Telegraph added: US spy satellites have detected several installations that intelligence officials believe are being used by Iran for a nuclear project that has not been declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme.
One facility is located in the Amir Abid residential district of Tehran, where western nuclear experts believe the Iranians are conducting experiments with the sophisticated P2 centrifuge.
Another suspicious site, whose existence British officials recently made public, is at Darhavin in south-west Iran, 200 miles from the Bushehr nuclear power plant. After Foreign Office officials expressed their concerns about it, the Iranians acknowledged they were building another nuclear reactor.
Suspicions that Iran has resumed work on its clandestine nuclear weapons programme have deepened after the discovery by nuclear inspectors that significant quantities of enriched uranium are unaccounted for at Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, where raw uranium “yellow cake” undergoes the first stage of the enrichment cycle.
So far, the Iranians have failed to come up with an adequate explanation for these discrepancies, and until they do the drumbeats of war are unlikely to subside.