Iranian Exile Says Uranium Enriched At Secret site

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 2-24-2005 | Louis Charbonneau

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PARIS (Reuters) - An Iranian exile accused Tehran on Thursday of secretly purifying uranium for use in nuclear weapons at a recently-constructed underground facility at a military complex called Parchin. "Iran has completed an underground tunnel-like facility in Parchin, which is now engaged in laser enrichment," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian exile who has reported accurately in the past about hidden atomic facilities in Iran.

"This underground site is camouflaged and built in an area of Parchin that deals with the chemical industry," he told Reuters by telephone from Washington, citing "well-placed sources inside the Iranian regime."

Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment, and Tehran has repeatedly denied carrying out any nuclear work at Parchin.

Jafarzadeh said the enrichment work was linked to "Iran's secret nuclear weapons program."

Enrichment is a process of purifying uranium for use as fuel for power plants or weapons. Iran says it no longer does any work with laser enrichment, a high-tech but inefficient method of purifying uranium.

Iran has said a tunnel complex under a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan had been built to store equipment for protection in case of U.S. or Israeli attack.

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[tomahawk]

If this is not stopped, we will be having a nuclear war in the next 20 years, with fallout contamination and many milloins dead.

This is the most important issue facing the world today.

[Bon mots]

Of course they are enriching Uranium.
This is a weapons plant.

Why would the country with the 4th largest proven oil reserves in the world EVER need nuclear power?
They will never need it.
They have more oil than any non-Arab country.

[SengirV]

I wonder if these folks are more credible than the Saddam exiles who said WMD was EVERYWHERE in Iraq.

[SunkenCiv]

Beheading is an Islamic punishment method best administered to mullahs.