(Washington Post) Greg Miller - An Iranian dissident group said on Thursday that it has identified a previously undisclosed nuclear facility under construction northwest of Tehran, claiming to have evidence that shows the Islamic nation is deceiving inspectors and moving forward in its pursuit of a bomb. The information was presented by the People's Mujaheddin Organization of Iran, a group that has been on the mark in the past in exposing Iranian nuclear activities, including the identification in 2002 of a large centrifuge installation at Natanz. The site is located just north of a major highway connecting Tehran with Qazvin. Satellite images showed significant excavation amid otherwise mountainous and barren terrain. The group said Iran has been engaged in major excavation work for at least five years, building a network of underground tunnels designed to hold centrifuges that could be used to enrich uranium to weapons-grade purification levels. A spokeswoman for the group, Soona Samsami, said the new compound was 85% complete and could prove to be "far more important than the Qom site," a facility that Iran worked on in secret for years before it was exposed by the Obama administration in 2009.
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