Iran opposition claims to have found secret nuclear site

[Fighter488]

Iran opposition claims to have found secret nuclear site​

(AFP) – 49 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Leading Iranian opposition members claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site buried in the mountains northwest of Tehran and run by Iran's defense ministry.

Information obtained by the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI) has revealed Iran began building the site in Abyek, about 70 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of Tehran, in 2005, the opposition members said.

"This is controlled, run and operated... by the ministry of defense," Alireza Jafarzadeh, former media spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told a press conference in Washington.

The PMOI, the main group in the NCRI, is officially listed as a foreign terrorist organization in the United States, although a judge ruled in July that it should be removed from the blacklist.

Jafarzadeh said the information about the Behjatabad-Abyek site was shared this week with the US government, Congress and the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

There was no immediate comment from these bodies.

Soona Samsami, who was US representative for the NCRI, said the Iranian authorities have so far spent 100 million dollars on the project and completed about 85 percent of the construction.

The pair presented satellite pictures of excavation work at the alleged nuclear site, which they said supports information gleaned from sources "inside the Iranian regime" and showed what they said were four entrances and a tunnel.

The mountain peak sitting atop the tunnel stands at 100 meters (330 feet), higher than the 80 meters (260 feet) nuclear experts say is required to prevent detection via radioactive emissions, Jafarzadeh said.

The mountain also reinforces the facility against any aerial bombardment, he added.

The tunnel, which is eight meters (26 feet) wide and 200 meters (650 feet) long leads deep inside the ground to three large halls designed to house centrifuge cascades used in the enrichment of uranium, he said.

The opposition members said the construction work began at a time when the Islamic Republic insisted it had halted its controversial nuclear activities.

The United States and other Western powers suspect Iran is using its nuclear enrichment program to build a bomb. Iran denies the charge, saying its atomic program is for peaceful purposes.


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Iran Is Developing Secret Uranium-Enrichment Site, Dissident Group Claims​

By Flavia Krause-Jackson - Sep 9, 2010 9:13 PM GMT+0530

Iran is developing a secret uranium enrichment site near Qazvin, 120 miles west of Tehran, a dissident group said today, citing satellite images of the area.

The facility is called Behjatad-Abyek and is code-named 311, according to the Iran Policy Committee, which supports the anti-regime People’s Mujahedeen of Iran.

“This is certainly part of the secret weapons program,” said Alireza Jafarzadeh, who presented the photos at a Washington press conference. “It’s just moved underground, in tunnels, hidden from the outside world.”

The Iranian government has spent $100 million on the mountainous site, where the photos, taken as far back as 2008 and as recently as last month, show excavation and tunneling, the group said.

Jafarzadeh said intelligence information the group obtained indicates the facility could accommodate thousands of enrichment centrifuges, and construction at the site will be finished this year. He wouldn’t describe the sources of the information, saying that would endanger the lives of informants.

Iran hasn’t provided information that would confirm the peaceful intent of its nuclear program, United Nations nuclear inspectors said in a report disclosed this week.

The Iranian government boosted its uranium stockpile while failing to increase cooperation with inspectors probing whether the Persian Gulf country is trying to build nuclear weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

Uranium, the key ingredient for producing nuclear power or bombs, is at the center of the international dispute over Iran’s atomic work. Iran, home to the world’s No. 2 oil and gas reserves, is under four sets of UN sanctions because it refuses to curtail its nuclear work, which the U.S. and European Union say is a shield for weapons development.

Iran, which insists it wants to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, has been under UN investigation since 2003. The country’s Russian-built nuclear power reactor in the southern city of Bushehr was turned on Aug. 21.


Iran Is Developing Secret Uranium-Enrichment Site, Dissident Group Claims - Bloomberg

 

[Hussein]

No this is not Iran opposition.
The US government is clearly saying this new is not trustable.

explanations:
this new coming from Fow news
bloomberg
A member of the terrorist group (considered as terrorist group in USA) is employed by Fow News: his name is Alireza Jafarzadeh
alireza jafarzadeh iranian terrorist in washington

the funny part is he said their terrorist group they found satellite photos .. how can they found satellite photos? then he answered they found with google
LOL just try to find with google

 

[somebozo]

These stupid american pupper resistance are soo blinded by carrot of power that they will treason on their own country. No matter what kind of disaggrement one has with the government they dont go around exposing state secrets.

 

[Tuahaa]

These stupid american pupper resistance are soo blinded by carrot of power that they will treason on their own country. No matter what kind of disaggrement one has with the government they dont go around exposing state secrets.

Exactly... perhaps it would even ruin their public image in iran. I'm sure Iranians want nuclear powers for their country too

 

[Hussein]

These stupid american pupper resistance are soo blinded by carrot of power that they will treason on their own country. No matter what kind of disaggrement one has with the government they dont go around exposing state secrets.

it is not at all that !

this group is not a popular Iranian group but a terrorist group
and it is considered as terrorist in USA (good point)

in US or Europe they are many kind of opposition
the big opposition is real green and it is what is in Iran
they always criticized any attack or even the boycott
they are proudly iranians
but they criticize the non democratic way of the Iran of nowadays

In us or france you have royalists: they are very small group
the self named shah in USA having very few support but he said that he didn't want to be a king but help for the country... his words don't seem that stupid than the ones of his mom who still believes a king could lead iran

In Europe mostly you have many communists groups
it is difficult to summarize because they are many different ideas
some say a lot of bullshit informations to exagerate or they criticize hardly the real green movment
some are clearly anti islamic
they are small minority in Iran

there is the terrorist group hatred inside iran except by some people who believe that only a hell of problems with them can save them from the dictatorship of now
they are a joke .. as a joke as people sometimes say they hope US attack Iran: they are small minority

if you check the news in US or in Europe it is better check the real competent people who are not leaded by these groups or more important they are not following the picture west having about iran
most of people inform well but france24, french news, english news, some american news : the people there are sometimes not honest

most Iranians would go in Iran to save the country for any invasion
so don't make confusion
MOST "green" people they want to change Iran for good

the ennemy of Iran for most Iranians is dictatorship
cheating elections and unrespect for our rights

and as i said if you read carefully before making comments
there is NO map: it is bullshit
just think about it: how can they get any map?