Iran has been building secret nuclear weapons labs separate from its uranium enrichment sites since as early as 2000, the country’s main opposition group in exile claimed yesterday.
The People’s Mujahideen, a banned opposition group, has long claimed that Tehran is engaged in illegal weapons development and has urged the international community to impose tough sanctions.
Yesterday, at a press conference in Paris, the movement gave what it said were more details of Tehran’s alleged attempt to construct a nuclear warhead, claiming to have evidence that the work goes back more than eight years.
The Mujahideen, part of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that in addition to its uranium enrichment sites Iran has also built “several installations in eastern Tehran.”
According to Mehdi Abrishamchi, chairman of NCRI’s ‘peace committee’, these sites are controlled by the ‘Research Site for Explosion and Impact’, a state body linked to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards. One of the sites is a network of underground tunnels in a military area by the Jajrood River near the village of Sanjarian.
“According to our information, this facility is involved in building high explosive material to be used to detonate a nuclear bomb,” Abrishamchi said.
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