Iran denies it is building secret nuclear facility
Iran refutes an opposition group's claim to have discovered a new uranium enrichment plant being built 75 miles west of Tehran.
By The Associated Press Tags: Iran Iran nuclearIran is denying an opposition group's claim that it is building a secret nuclear facility west of the capital.
The head of Iran's nuclear agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, said the country has no undeclared nuclear sites, according to a report Friday by the semiofficial Mehr news agency.
On Thursday, an Iranian opposition group claimed to have discovered a new uranium enrichment plant being built about 75 miles (120 kilometers) west of Tehran and said it was 85 percent complete.
A U.S. government official also disputed the claim by the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, saying the site did not appear to have a nuclear role.
The official said the U.S. has known about the facility for years but has no reason to think it is nuclear.
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Technicians measuring parts of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in this undated photo. |
| Photo by: AP |
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When is ISRAEL going to acknowledge it HAS NUCLEAR WEAPON? And that it used URANIUM in south Lebanon attack?. Finally when this TERRORIST STATE will open its plants to INTERNATIONAL INSEPECTION?. ISRAEL CAN NOT continue to act as a vandals defying the international legality. ISRAEL HAS HAD A NUCLEAR MONOPOLY in the region for several decades. You cannot hide or ignore the truth, the double standards, Israel is upset not because Iran has nukes but because its sole monopoly on nuke possession in Middleast has been broken, and with that goes its ability to bully and threaten others uncheckedl's nuclear capability forever.
and the world knows about it ,,LOL
iran has no credibility at this point in time. It has obfuscated, deceived, lied, prevaricated, mislead and now it want the gullible west to believe there is no facility. Well tehn Prove it. let teh IAEA inspectors in to see all teh facilities including this new one whose location is known.
Once the disingenuous Iranian Regime began to lie with the words of their founder Khomeinei, even while in exile back in France, they've had to keep lying for 32 years to make their words appear "true" to their followers. The few, gullible amongst them supported the regime while the ones who suspected clerical foul play sheathed with white-washed turbans were harassed, tortured, and murdered. Ask Iran's regime "accountant" to justify the obscene over-expenditures to bury their nuclear program deep underground under 20 meter thick reinforced concrete slabs and ring the sites with sophisticated Russian defense systems to "protect" their civilian nuclear program when an inexpensive barbed wire fence surrounding the above ground complex would have sufficed.
Appears all those shekels have been wasted.
Let the IAEA inspect the facility.
Iran's nuclear industry continued UNDER the opposition.