Iran violating U.S. deal with secret nukes
research,
opposition group says
Iran is cheating on its historical deal with
the U.S. by secretly conducting research into nuclear weapons components such
as bomb triggers and enriched uranium, the main Iranian opposition group said
Friday.
The regime is doing engineering and weaponization testing at
a walled military complex south of Tehran, a location which Iran has declared
off-limits to inspectors, said the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) and its main operational arm, the People’s Mujaheddin of
Iran (MEK).
“This is the site that has been kept secret,” said Alireza
Jafrazadeh, NCRI’s Washington office deputy director. “There is secret research
to manufacture the bomb and basically cover up the real activities of the
Iranian regime.”
The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),
negotiated by the Obama administration, has become a major foreign policy issue
for the Trump White House as it evaluates whether to reimpose economic
sanctions on Tehran. Iran has benefited with billions of dollars in freed-up
funds while it pursues interventions in Iraq, Syria and Yemen against U.S.
interests.
The NCRI-MEK report came the day after Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson lambasted Iran for its expansionist terrorist activities in the
region which he said violated the spirit of the JCPOA. He called the deal a
“failed approach” since Iran can break out and build bombs after 10 years.
The JCPOA outlaws the type of weaponization work described by
the NCRI-MEK report.
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