Alireza Jafrizadeh
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Well, this information came from the network inside Iran of the main Iranian opposition movement known as the MEK, which has a very large presence all over the country. They are very good in terms of the track record. This is the same movement that exposed the nuclear site in Natanz and Iraq in August of 2002, which triggered the IAEA inspections of Iranian nuclear sites for the first time.
And then there were a host of other nuclear sites, experts, facilities, programs that this movement has exposed. The reason they're able to do it consistently is that they are all over the country. They are the movement for change in Iran. They have to monitor the activities of the Iranian regime, both for their own protection, but also in order to bring about change in the country.
And that's why this new information came from their sources. It took a while for them to process it, to go over the details, making sure that everything that they're putting out is accurate. And that's why they were ready to release it. And that's when we had the press conference just last week here in Washington, releasing that information.
Absolutely, they are proven to be credible over the past two, three decades. Interestingly, the information that released shows that the Iran regime has been working on building a new nuclear site that was unknown until we made the revelation.
Now the organization behind building this site is a entity known as the CEPAND, S-P-N-D, which is the entity that is run by the Minister of Defense, controlled by the Revolutionary Guards. and their sole task is to develop nuclear weapons. This is the organization that is the new form, new shape of the original organization that was part of what they called Ahmad Plan.
We exposed this organization back in July of 2011, and three years later, the State Department in 2014 designated this entity, and now everyone knows about it. Now, the structure of this facility was started back in 2009 and originated by, overseen by a person known as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who is known also as the father of the Iran regime's nuclear weapons program.
He was behind a lot of the other sites and he's the one that was assassinated in October 2020, actually not too far from this site. Now the site was completed by 2013 and has been operational ever since. There's three facilities, we had the details of those sites and we said that
this whole place is controlled by Saban, but also we showed how they place it a very unusual way, guarded and protected by radar system, by air defense system. And while in order to keep it secret, they portrayed this as a site that is related to a paint factory. I'm not aware of any paint factory that would have this level of hiding and camouflage.
Well, first of all, the sites that were agreed to be monitored were all of them secret sites until most of them actually we revealed them. The site in Natanz, the heavy weather facility in Iraq, a number of other facilities that the IAEA was going and taking samples, inspecting, the regime kept them secret. So basically as part of the agreement was basically whatever they already knew.
And they hid this site, but even the sites that we exposed that were primarily dealt with weaponization part of the program, not just enrichment that would give them the fissile material, but you need to turn that into a warhead, a weapon. And we, you know, exposed several of those sites that were never inspected,
by the IAEA because the regime said, this is a military site and military sites are off limits. You can only come to this civilian thing. And that was a huge flaw in the inspections regime that was put in place. We raised the flag at the time and you can see the outcome. But also, even the sites that they were enriching the regime went their own way.
They shut down some of the monitoring cameras for the sites that the IAEA was inspecting. They even violated their commitment that, for instance, that they would limit the enrichment to 3.67%, which is supposedly the peaceful level. but they just went their own way and they reached way over 60%, which is just a screwdriver's turn away from getting the weapons grade material.
Some of the sites that were underground, like in Fardo, near Cumb, under the mountains, they were supposed to feed no uranium hexafluid at all, but that's where they were enriching uranium to very high grade. So that's why, I mean, the whole monitoring system has major flaws especially in dealing with a regime that is built on deception, that is built on dragging and playing games with others.
We also showed in our revelation that the regime had created a number of front companies to cover the whole thing. And one of these front companies, for instance, we showed that it's basically run by IRGC Brigadier Generals, all of whom are involved in the proliferation activities.
And they were using this front company to go through the other front companies to get access, to get material, to get activities.
The primary function, actually, they said on the surface that it's all about the oil and petrochemical facilities that are used to some chemical activities there. These are like benign looking things. But in fact, that's a new way, new camouflage to actually operate doing nuclear research, nuclear activities related to the development of nuclear warheads.
The reason we know that what they're doing there is not what they're announcing or they're telling the locals is that CEPAND, which is the organization whose job only is to work on the nuclear weapons program, has been heavily involved. Just two days ago, the US government again designated
a number of experts that are associated with Sapant, specifically working on detonation, which is another aspect that we exposed back in December of 2024. So, there's a whole host of, activities, sites, and operations by the Iran regime that the IAEA cannot keep up with them. The way the whole thing is structured, is built, there's no way you can really actually monitor this whole situation.
And that's why we're calling for the dismantlement of all of these sites, saying the entire nuclear program of the regime is all about the weapons. It has nothing to do with nuclear energy. Anything related to this must be shut down.
Well, first of all, the two sides are coming to a negotiating table, even though the Iran regime has been there many times before, back in 2003, right after we had made the revelation about Natanz. At that time, it was the EU3, Britain, France, and Germany who were involved in the negotiations. with the Iranian regime.
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