- WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Iran
has developed a network of tunnels to conceal the regime's nuclear weapons
and long-range ballistic missile programs.
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- Iranian opposition sources said Teheran has built dozens
of tunnels and underground facilities to conceal nuclear weapons and missile
development and production. They said the tunnels have been built under
military facilities sought for inspection by the International Atomic Energy
Agency.
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- Alireza Jafarzadeh, president of Strategic Policy Consulting
and a former Iranian opposition leader, said Iran has been using underground
and military facilities to maintain the regime's secret nuclear weapons
program. Jafarzadeh said Teheran constructed the tunnels to prevent monitoring
by U.S. military satellites.
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- "Based on information received from inside the country,
the Iranian regime has started an extensive strategic plan in order to
build tunnels and secret centers across the country, in order to hide its
nuclear and missiles projects," Jafarzadeh told a Sept. 16 briefing
that included the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute and Iran Policy
Committee. "Based on the regime's technical and expertise evaluation,
given Iran's mountainous geographical conditions, the country is suitable
for building tunnels and housing inside them secret military centers."
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