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Alireza Jafrizadeh

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132 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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,

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | May 17th, 2025: Iran’s Secret Weapons Lab Revealed & Russia’s Battlefield Recovery

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.