Iran Caught Secretly Weaponizing Nukes: Houthis Fired 83 Missiles Against Saudi Arabia - Arab Coalition
02 January 2018WND Radio
Despite U.S. government conclusions to the contrary, Iran is cheating on the
2015 nuclear deal and is actively weaponizing nukes, according to the group
who uncovered Iran's most recent nuclear ambitions in the first place.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, in recent days that is
says it proof of Iranian actions that violate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action, or JCPOA. It also alleges that the activity is taking place in areas
and facilities that are off limits to regular inspections from the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
The NCRI is very confident in the validity of its reports.
"These are the very same sources that have been proven accurate in the past.
The network of the movement inside Iran, the MEK, was responsible for exposing
the Natanz uranium enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water facility back
in August of 2002," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the NCRI's
Washington office.
Those revelations triggered the international response that has played out for
the past 15 years. He told WND and Radio America the group's sources inside
Iran have also made many other discoveries that have panned out over the
years. And Jafarzadeh said outside experts back up those conclusions.
"Those that have seen the satellite imagery that we disclosed during our press
conference have confirmed that the satellite imagery shows the construction,
the way the buildings are configured, basically corroborates what we're
saying, that this facility is being used for nuclear weaponization,"
Jafarzadeh explained.
He said further proof that the intelligence is right can be seen in the
official Iranian response.
"None of them denied our claim outright. Instead, they started attacking us,
saying how bad we are and why the United States should not listen to us,
without addressing the particular revelation we made," Jafarzadeh said. "They
made no reference to it, nor did they invite the IAEA to come and visit."
Jafarzadeh said the specific facility shown in the satellite photos depicts a
location specializing in detonators. Much of the secret activity is believed
to be going on at Iran's Parchin facility, a spot that Jafarzadeh said Iran
blocked inspectors from for years until finally relenting two years ago. He
said it makes sense for Iran to do clandestine work there.
"They thought they closed the chapter on Parchin. Now with this new
information and new evidence, there is a renewed call among nuclear experts
that the IAEA should be able to go back to this place among other locations
that the IAEA has never inspected," said Jafarzadeh.
He also outlined what the process ought to include.
"The IAEA now has to have access to all of those buildings, to be able to
interview their top nuclear scientists, including Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who has
been the top person behind the whole program over the past 15-20 years,"
Jafarzadeh said.
So why hasn't Parchin been part of regular inspections since the JCPOA was
enacted in 2015? Jafarzadeh said the Iranians successfully limited inspections
to "declared sites."
"I'm not very comfortable with the term 'declared site' because these are not
really sites declared by Iran. It was exposed by us and then Tehran said, 'Oh
yes, we have those sites,'" Jafarzadeh said.
"[The IAEA] basically keeps track of how many centrifuges they have, how much
uranium hexafluoride was produced. They have a checklist they go through and,
of course, Tehran is very shrewd, and they know this is not the place they
need to cheat," said Jafarzadeh, noting the violations happen at facilities
the IAEA cannot access or does not know about.
Jafarzadeh said the actions of the West over the past four to five years have
clearly emboldened the likes of Iran, and he noted there are close ties
between the two nuclear programs.
"There is a very, very close relationship [with] North Korea that is helping
Iran, not just on their missile program but specifically on their nuclear
weapons program," Jafarzadeh said. "It's a very scary situation."
Arab Coalition: Houthis Fired 83 Missiles against Saudi Arabia
Al Arabiya
The coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen announced on Wednesday that the
Saudi air defense forces succeeded on Tuesday in intercepting a ballistic
missile launched by Yemen's Houthi militias.
Spokesman for the Arab coalition Turki al-Maliki said that so far, the
Iranian-backed Houthis, have fired 83 ballistic missiles against the Kingdom.
He stressed that no one was injured in Tuesday's strike.
He deemed however that the ongoing launch of ballistic missiles against the
Kingdom is a "dangerous escalation" by the militias.
The Houthis have become a threat to Saudi Arabia and the world, Maliki
stressed.
The spokesman welcomed statements of condemnation issued by the international
community against Iran's support of the Houthis.
He revealed that the Houthis have lost 11,326 members during the past three
months of battles in Yemen.
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