Report: Iranian uranium enrichment site revealed

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Report: Iranian uranium enrichment site revealed
By JPOST.COM STAFF
09/09/2010 23:26
Building began in 2005, 85% completed; site buried deep in mountains to prevent detection, aerial bombardment; meant to house centrifuge cascades.

Prominent Iranian opposition members claimed to have revealed a secret uranium enrichment site buried deep in the mountains northwest of Teheran, according to an AFP report on Thursday. According to the report, the enrichment site is managed by Iran's defense ministry and construction began in 2005 in Abyek, roughly 70 miles northwest of Teheran, the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), revealed.

"This is controlled, run and operated... by the ministry of defense," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, former media spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) at a press conference in Washington DC. The PMOI, the main organization in the NCRI, has been officially recognized as a foreign terror organization by the US, however in July, a judge ruled that the group should be removed from the foreign terror list. Until now, Iran has spent 100 million dollars on the project, said Soona Samsami, former US representative for the NCRI. He said that around 85 percent of construction of the site has been completed.

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Report: Iran building additional secret nuclear enrichment facility
Iranian opposition group presents satellite footage allegedly proving existence of secret facility in Abyek, 120 kilometers northwest of Tehran.
By Haaretz Service

Iran is working on a secret facility designed to enrich uranium, the French news agency AFP quoted leading Iranian opposition members as saying Thursday. The National Council of Resistance of Iran held a press conference in Washington and presented satellite footage allegedly proving that Iran has built a nuclear facility in Abyek, a site some 120 kilometers northwest of Tehran. According to the group, the facility, run by Iran's defense ministry, was built in 2005.

In the past, the opposition group proved its credibility when it uncovered the nuclear facility in Natanz. During the press conference, members of the opposition organization revealed data that they said had been gathered over the course of several years, saying that in their estimation the facility was 85 percent complete.

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