Iranian opposition activists said yesterday that Tehran was rushing to build nuclear components in breach of its commitments to the UN.The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political wing of the outlawed Mujahideen-e-Khalq guerrilla movement, which is classified as a terrorist organisation in Europe and the US, said the Iranian authorities were covertly building and concealing thousands of centrifuge rigs used to enrich uranium for nuclear fuel or weapons. The NCRI regularly makes claims about Iran's nuclear operations which are impossible to corroborate.
| Great, just what we need. |
In London yesterday the Iranian activists said Tehran has been fooling the UN and the EU by secretly constructing some 4,000 centrifuges while pursuing negotiations. The centrifuges were said to be hidden at military and Iranian revolutionary guard facilities, off limits to the UN.
Earlier this month a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hosein Mousavian, said on television that Tehran had exploited the two years of negotiations with the EU to refine some of its nuclear activities at Natanz and the uranium conversion centre at Isfahan. "The regime adopted a twofold policy here," he said. "Thanks to the negotiations with Europe we gained another year, in which we completed [the work] in Isfahan ... In Natanz, much of the work has been completed."
| Fooling the EU3 is almost as hard as me fooling our English cocker spaniel. |
| They'll send Hans Blix; he'll get to the heart of it. |
