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3 page article:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,664329-2,00.html
12/02/2009
“’It’s 1938, and Iran Is Germany’
Israel’s Patience with Tehran Wearing Thin”
By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath and Christoph Schult
SNIPPET: “Intelligence reports about a restructuring in the Iranian Defense Ministry are no less alarming. According to those reports, a “Department for Expanded High-Technology Applications” (FEDAT) is now under great pressure from the government in Tehran to push ahead with a military nuclear program. According to an organizational chart of FEDAT that SPIEGEL has obtained, the department is divided into sub-departments for uranium mining, enrichment, metallurgy, neutrons, highly explosive material and fuel supply (”Project 111”). FEDAT is headed by the mysterious Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, one of the key officials the IAEA wants to interview, although Mahabadi has so far refused to talk to the agency.”
SNIPPET: “But Iran currently favors threatening gestures over compromises of any sort.”
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6955236.ece
From The Times
December 14, 2009
“Leaked memo identifies man at head of Irans nuclear programme”
Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent
SNIPPET: “Mr Fakhrizadeh, a physics professor and a former officer in the elite Revolutionary Guard, is no longer able to leave Iran because the UN Security Council imposed travel sanctions and an assets freeze on him. However, he is regarded as one of the regimes most loyal servants.”
SNIPPET: “The memo from Mr Fakhrizadeh, dated December 29, 2005, is addressed to the heads of 12 different departments that make up Fedat. Experts say that the grouping together of all these disciplines under a single military command points to nothing other than a weapons programme.”