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Group: Iran Operating Top Secret ‘Parallel Nuclear Program’
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 24, 2015 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 02/24/2015 12:26:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

An Iranian dissident group known for exposing key aspects of Iran’s secret nuclear work claims it now has evidence of “an active and secret parallel nuclear program” operated by Tehran.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as the MEK, said in a report released Tuesday it has found concrete evidence of an “underground top-secret site currently used by the Iranian regime for research and development with advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment,” according to a copy of the findings.

The NCRI, an Iranian opposition group, is known for making big reveals about clandestine nuclear work in Tehran, though its findings have been disputed in the past.

In its latest report, which comes as nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West hit a critical juncture, the NCRI presents evidence of a clandestine nuclear site in Tehran that has continued to perform advanced nuclear research in the enrichment of uranium, the key component in a bomb.

The NCRI claims to have found over a decade-long investigation that the secret military site has been covered up by Tehran under the guise of an Intelligence Ministry center, according to the report.

While the information could not be independently verified, the NCRI claims to have vetted and corroborated the information with multiple sources over many years.

“Despite the Iranian regime’s claims that all of its enrichment activities are transparent and under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has in fact been engaged in research and development with advanced centrifuges at a secret nuclear site called Lavizan-3, in a military base in northeast Tehran suburbs,” the report concludes.

The site has operated in secret since at least 2008. Iranian regime scientists have used it to conduct critical research into uranium using highly advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich the substance to levels necessary for a nuclear weapon, according to the findings.

The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is said to be “directly responsible” for guarding the underground site and preventing it from being detected by Western inspectors.

Part of the key concern among critics of the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran is that the regime has a history of obfuscating its nuclear program. Many of the research sites have not been fully acknowledged by Tehran, leading some to suspect that even under a nuclear deal, Iran could continue to pursue its controversial work in secret.

The NCRI claims the site is located in the suburbs of Tehran, deep underground and only accessible by an elevator leading to an underground tunnel.

“The underground facilities are dual-layered to prevent radiation and sound leaks,” according to the report.

The NCRI said the site provides firm proof that while negotiators are working to hammer a deal, Tehran’s nuclear work continues unabated.

“Research and development with advanced centrifuges in highly secret sites are only intended to advance the nuclear weapons project,” the report states. “While the regime deceived the world into believing that it had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, it had been in fact heavily involved in excavating tunnels and preparing this nuclear site from 2004 to 2008.”

The dissident organization is urging the United States to make any further talks contingent on Iran admitting to the site and permitting the entry of inspectors.

“If the United States is serious about preventing the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons, it must make the continuation of the talks predicated on the IAEA’s immediate inspection of the Lavizan-3 site,” it states.

The NCRI’s report was released at a critical time in the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran.

Reports emerged earlier this week that the United States is considering allowing Iran to retain the majority of its nuclear infrastructure under a final deal.

The deal is shaping up to be a two-phased agreement, according to the Associated Press. This means Tehran would be subject to restrictions on its work for around a decade before they are lifted.

The NCRI maintains that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith.

“The notion that the mullahs will abandon their nuclear weapons program [through] nuclear talks is a misguided narrative, which is the byproduct of the mullahs’ duplicity and western economic and political expediency,” it states in the report.

The White House, State Department, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) received copies of the report several hours before it was made public to reporters.

The State Department did not respond to a request for comment by press time.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; nucleararms; nuclearweapons; obama
If they know about it, so does the Obama administration and Israel.
1 posted on 02/24/2015 12:26:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is it fancier than Barry’s parallel immigration system?


2 posted on 02/24/2015 12:28:20 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If they know about it, so does the Obama administration and Israel.

While that may be so, the fact is that the Val/Ø regime would not want this public now, while the Netenyahu administration would want it public now.

Those here at FR that have voiced support for the Mossad coming out with the Ø birth dossier may be getting at least something along that line - at least in terms of support for what BiBi will be saying to Congress next month.

3 posted on 02/24/2015 12:34:29 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More like valjar admin financed it and Israel knows about it.


4 posted on 02/24/2015 12:34:31 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: C210N

100 Days of Being a Laughingstock in Paris (Obama versus the CIA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2298074/posts


5 posted on 02/24/2015 12:39:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look underneath the centrifuges and you will find the “Made in USA” @ 2014 stamp


6 posted on 02/24/2015 12:53:24 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Top Secret?

Everyone on Planet Earth (except, apparently, Barack Obama and John Kerry) knows that Iran is rushing toward nuclear weapons development.


7 posted on 02/24/2015 12:54:11 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is no secret - it has been long known that Iran runs a parallel military nuke development program. The secret, if there is one, is that the US public believes the talks include all of Iran’s nuclear program - when in fact the talks are limited to Iran’s public program. There is no check, no inspection, no limit to Iran’s military nuclear program.

The current US-Iranian talks and all the talks for the past 20 years are a joke. The US government knows this, the media does not, or choose not to mention it.


8 posted on 02/24/2015 1:18:47 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kerry gets instructions from Obama about discussing the secret Iranian program... "Don't forget to bow to Khameni... They are into that stuff. Besides, that annoying Netanyahu will probably spill the beans to congress next week. So be on your toes"
9 posted on 02/24/2015 2:09:31 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Jack Hammer
"Everyone on Planet Earth (except, apparently, Barack Obama and John Kerry) knows that Iran is rushing toward nuclear weapons development."

Oh they know, they are doing everything possible to run interference for and help the Iranians. Their hatred for the West and the US in particular seems to know no bounds. Kerry may be a leftist fool and tool, but Obama and his handlers are planning on rebalancing power in the World and advancing Islam as much as possible.

10 posted on 02/24/2015 4:35:36 PM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is a traitor to the United States.


11 posted on 02/24/2015 4:57:12 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No Obama won’t know about this until it is reported in the NY Time’s.


12 posted on 02/24/2015 5:11:02 PM PST by TBall
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was thinking the same thing. If Israel didn’t know about it, they do now. They cannot allow Iran to get a nuke.


13 posted on 02/24/2015 5:41:20 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: Truth29

You’ve nailed it.


14 posted on 02/24/2015 7:20:51 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: C210N

Netanyahu would never release anything he may or may not about Obama before Congress.

However, I cannot believe the Mossad doesn’t know plenty. I just wonder why it hasn’t been “leaked”?


15 posted on 02/24/2015 8:15:30 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

Leaked to who? Who would care? It’s not like Israel has any allies in this world now.


16 posted on 02/24/2015 11:40:54 PM PST by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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Only Four days to go until March!


FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!




17 posted on 02/25/2015 8:54:36 AM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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