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Iran's Nukes Exposed

 
An A-O Report Compilation of the latest news stories surrounding Iran's nuclear weapons program from February 20 through February 24.

 

Iranian Exiles Expose

Iran's Nuke Weapons Program

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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.

Read the full story from Reuters Newswires - LINK here.

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Iran Ready To Deploy Nukes?

On Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a press conference in Brussels disclosed that the Iranian regime's nuclear weapon program has entered from "Readiness" to "Deployment" phase by establishing a center for command and control to obtain nuclear bomb.

Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI revealed that a new center known as "Field for Expansion and Deployment of Advanced Technologies" has been setup since April 2007 in Lavizan-2 site to replace the old center which was established in 2004.

The new center known as Mojdeh Site is an independent part of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) with its own directorates and sub-divisions. More info, LINK here.

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Iran Nukes and IAEA

Iran Fails To Answer Weapons Questions

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it confronted Iran for the first time with Western intelligence reports showing work linked to making atomic bombs and that Tehran had failed to provide satisfactory answers.

The United States passed the intelligence, which came mainly from a laptop spirited out of Iran, to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2005 but out of fear for its spies only authorized the IAEA to present it last month, diplomats said.

The IAEA said Iran had dismissed the intelligence as "baseless" or "fabricated", but had provided increased cooperation on other issues in the past few months.

Iran's increased transparency amounted to a doubled-edged sword as it reaffirmed Tehran was forging ahead with uranium enrichment in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands to stop all proliferation-sensitive nuclear activity.

The IAEA findings, which also said Iran had failed to clear up all outstanding questions by an agreed February deadline, may spur the Security Council to adopt a third round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic as early as next week.

In unusually strong wording, the IAEA said in a report Iran had not so far explained documentation pointing to undeclared efforts to "weaponise" nuclear materials by linking uranium processing with explosives and designing of a missile warhead.

Publishing details of the intelligence, the IAEA described tests on a 400-metre (1,300 ft) firing shaft seen as "relevant" to atomic arms research and a schematic layout of a missile cone "quite likely to be able to accommodate a nuclear device"

"The (intelligence) studies are a matter of serious concern and critical to an assessment of a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear program," said the report issued by IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei.

"The agency will not be in a position to make progress towards providing credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran before reaching some clarity on the nature of the alleged studies." More here,  LINK.

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UN To Meet Monday On Iran Sanctions

Sanctions against Iran is on the agenda following reports of discovery of continuous nuclear energy activities in Tehran, a senior official from the State Department said Friday.

The UN Security Council will meet in Washington on Monday to discuss the proposed sanctions, which will include economic and trade restrictions, and a travel ban against officials who are believed to be involved in Iran's nuclear program.

"We will review our strategy (launched at the United Nations) in New York, the pace of the resolution," U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said, according to Agence France Press. More Details, LINK Here.

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Ahmadinejad: The PMOI blew the whistle

on our nuclear program

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the clerical regime’s president said the current nuclear crisis began when the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) blew the whistle by revealing the secret nuclear sites in 2002.

Quoting Ahamadinejad’s remarks today, the official news agency IRNA said, “The nuclear issue in its new form began in the beginning of the summer of 2002, when the Monafeqin [the term used by the Iranian regime to describe the PMOI/MEK], published a report on Natanz and Arak nuclear sites. The International Atomic Energy Agency got involved… and resolutions were adopted one after the other.”

According to IRNA, Ahamadinejad also admitted that international scrutiny on the regime’s two-decade-long secret nuclear weapons project were consequences of those revelations.

Ahmadinejad's comments came only four days after a major revelation made by the Iranian Resistance in a press conference in Brussels.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) disclosed that the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons program has entered from "Readiness" to "Deployment" phase by establishing a center for command and control to obtain nuclear bomb.

Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI revealed that a new center known as "Field for Expansion and Deployment of Advanced Technologies" has been setup since April 2007 in Lavizan-2 site to replace the old center which was established in 2004.

The NCRI said the Iranian regime was also actively pursuing production of nuclear warheads at a site named Khojir, southeast of Tehran. LINK here.

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Iran's Prez Demands Apology on Nukes

Threatens Retaliation To Any More Sanctions

Says IAEA report proves Iran has no nuclear weapons program. LINK here.

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