Iran Plans Nuclear Bomb in 2005
March 13, 2004
Middle East Newsline
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LONDON -- An Iranian exile group asserts that Teheran has set a deadline for 2005 to achieve nuclear weapons capability.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the regime of Ali Khamenei decided to resume uranium enrichment at undisclosed facilities as part of an accelerated effort to achieve nuclear weapons capability. The council said the decision was taken at a recent session of the Iranian leadership after meetings by Iranian National Security Adviser Hassan Rowhani with the International Atomic Energy in October 2003.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, a leading council member, said the meeting of the Iranian leadership took place in early 2004 after the exposure of the Pakistan network of Abdul Qadeer Khan. The network was said to have provided technology, blueprints and components for the nuclear programs of Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Quoting sources inside Iran, Jafarzadeh asserted that the Teheran regime prepared a series of secret facilities that have continued with uranium enrichment. These facilities were prepared after the IAEA sought to inspect such facilities as Arak, which contains a heavy-water plant, and Natanz, where hundreds of centrifuges were housed. Both facilities were disclosed by the council in 2002.
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