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Iran's Secret Sites Linked to Nuclear Weapons Development Revealed
(Fox News) Hollie McKay - A new 52-page investigative report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), entitled: "Iran's Nuclear Core: Uninspected Military Sites," asserts that the country's nuclear weapons program is far from halted. "The military aspect of the program has been and remains at the heart of Iran's nuclear activities," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the Washington office of the NCRI. "The weaponization program is fully operational," Jafarzadeh said. "The military sector has gone through changes in name, location and reorganizations over the years. However, it has never halted its work and key figures in the sector have remained unchanged." The report identifies four major sites that "with high degrees of certainty" have been involved in nuclear weapons. Pazhouheshkadeh, located at the Parchin military complex, has become the main center for tests by the Center for Research and Expansion of Technologies for Explosion and Impact (METFAZ). "The project to actively pursue production of nuclear warheads is conducted in Khojir by the Hemmat Missile Industries Group," the report notes. "Scores of large underground tunnels have been constructed in this military complex," providing "the possibility and flexibility of covering up the activities of the warhead project." North Korean experts have been "particularly helpful" in design aspects of the project. At the Hafte Tir site near Isfahan, "the research site related to nuclear activities is located inside of a tunnel." Workshops at Hafte Tir were used in the past to produce centrifuge components. The Sanjarian site until recently was deemed the central testing site of METFAZ and is still functional. "None of the key nuclear sites situated in military centers have been inspected by the IAEA, certainly not since the JCPOA," said Jafarzadeh.