(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - Iran's Revolutionary Guards are overseeing a massive expansion of the country's nuclear weapons program in an attempt to bring forward the date when the regime can produce its first warhead, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which previously revealed the existence of Iran's top-secret uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. A specialist team of 60 nuclear scientists has been seconded to a specially-designated unit called the New Defense Research Organization which answers directly to the Revolutionary Guards. The unit, based at Mojdeh, in the Lavizan region, was established to work on key areas of the weapons program that still need to be completed before Iran can assemble a nuclear weapon. The unit is conducting research on the fissile material used for making a nuclear weapon, the different metals used for making a warhead, and developing a detonator for such a device.
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