{"id":7403,"date":"2017-04-21T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:43:47","slug":"iran-violating-u-s-deal-with-secret-nukes-research-opposition-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/7403\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran violating U.S. Deal with Secret Nukes Research, Opposition Group Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times<\/a>, 21 April 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The regime is doing engineering and weaponization testing at a walled military complex south of Tehran<\/a>, a location which Iran<\/a> has declared off-limits to inspectors, said the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI) and its main operational arm, the People\u2019s Mujaheddin of Iran<\/a> (MEK).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the site that has been kept secret,\u201d said Alireza Jafrazadeh<\/a>, NCRI\u2019s Washington office deputy director. \u201cThere is secret research to manufacture the bomb and basically cover up the real activities of the Iranian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. Iran<\/a> has benefited with billions of dollars in freed-up funds while it pursues interventions in Iraq<\/a>, Syria and Yemen against U.S. interests.<\/p>\n

The NCRI-MEK report came the day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson<\/a> lambasted Iran<\/a> for its expansionist terrorist activities in the region which he said violated the spirit of the JCPOA. He called the deal a \u201cfailed approach\u201d since Iran<\/a> can break out and build bombs after 10 years.<\/p>\n

The JCPOA outlaws the type of weaponization work described by the NCRI-MEK report.<\/p>\n

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