Iran hiding nuclear site from UN - exiled opposition
13 Oct 2003 12:57:38 GMT
VIENNA, Oct 13 (Reuters)
An Iranian opposition group that has provided accurate information about undeclared nuclear facilities in Iran in the past said on Monday that Tehran has been hiding another nuclear facility from U.N. inspectors.
"We have information about another secret nuclear facility in Iran," an official from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled opposition group, told Reuters. The official gave no details about the site, but said NCRI officials would provide full details on Tuesday.
In August 2002, the NCRI broke the news of two undeclared nuclear sites in Iran -- a massive uranium-enrichment complex at Natanz and a heavy-water production facility at Arak.
Tehran later declared these facilities to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has placed surveillance cameras at Natanz to ensure that no undeclared nuclear activities take place there.
Earlier this year, the IAEA found traces of weapons-grade enriched uranium at Natanz, fuelling fears that Iran has been secretly purifying uranium for use in an atomic bomb.
Tehran denies it secretly enriched uranium and blamed the traces on contaminated machinery purchased abroad in the 1980s.
The NCRI is a coalition of moderate or left-wing groups and presents itself as a potential replacement for Islamic rule in Iran. The U.S. State Department and the European Union list the NCRI's armed wing, the People's Mujahideen, as a terrorist group.
Last month the governing board of the IAEA gave Iran until October 31 to prove it is not diverting nuclear resources to a secret weapons programme, as the United States alleges, or face sanctions by the U.N. Security Council.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has been invited to Tehran on Thursday, though an agency spokeswoman said he had not decided yet whether he would accept.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13574376.htmMehrabad Airport & Tehran, Iran (On 10/14-15/ 2003)
Iranians will gather, in the late hours of Tuesday night, at the Tehran's Mehrabad Int'l Airport, and on Wednesday afternoon, in the Laleh Park, in order to welcome Mrs.Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian Nobelist, awarded for her Human Rights actions.
At this time, Mrs. Ebadi has scheduled to fly back home, from France, on Tuesday at 14:30 (Paris local time) by Iran Air Flight #!R732 departing from S. Orly Airport. Her fregime (pretexting the strategic nature of Mehrabad Airport) will happen under huge security measures.light[sic] shall land around 22:00 on Tuesday (Tehran's local time).
These gatherings have been banned by the Islamic republic and might lead to a brual repression.
On Tuesday October 14, 2003
From 22:00 (local time)
At the Mehrabad Airport of Tehran, all its exits and the Azadi (former Shahyad) square.
On Wednesday October 15, 2003
From 14:00 (local time)
At the "Laleh Park" located in the "Fatemi" avenue.
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