The father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, delivered in 2001 weapons grade highly enriched uranium to Iran which plans to use it to build a nuclear bomb next year, an Iranian opposition group claimed in Vienna Wednesday. "Khan has delivered a quantity of HEU to Iran in 2001", Farid Soleimani, a senior official of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said at a press conference in Vienna. He said the Iranians have also received nuclear weapons designs from the Khan black market network. Khan gave the Iranians "the same weapons design he gave the Libyans as well as more in terms of weapons design," Soleimani said.
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He said that for the Iranian military, 2005 "is the target base for the first bomb". Khan has admitted to being the ringleader of a smuggling network that supplied Iran, Libya and North Korea with sensitive nuclear technology. Soleimani is a senior official of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which in 2002 exposed two key nuclear sites Iran had been hiding, including a uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz. The NCRI is the political arm of the Mujahadeen Khalq, which the United States considers a terrorist orgnization. | Wherein lies the problem, can we trust the intel they provide? |
Soleiman said Iran had a parallel nuclear program, with the military hiding uranium enrichment facilities while showing inspectors of the Vienna-based UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) civilian facilities. |