Tehran has lied to world powers about its nuclear program, official admits

Tehran has lied to world powers about its nuclear program, official admits

Ali Akbar Salehi

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Agency of the mullahs’ regime, said in an unprecedented confession that the mullahs lied in nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 countries about the Arak nuclear site and in fact concealed a part of the banned equipment.

"In those tubes we had, the tubes that the fuel goes through them there, we had bought similar tubes previously, but I could not declare them at the time, only one person knew about it in Iran," he said in an interview with the government television. “Only the highest authority of the regime (Khamenei) was aware and no one else ... His Holiness (Khamenei) had said that you should be careful about these people, they are not trustworthy and don’t keep to their promises. Well, we had to work smartly and intelligently, in addition to not breaking the bridges behind us, we also had to build a bridge that would enable us to go faster if we were to go back. It was a tube of two or three centimeters in diameter and three or four meters long ... We had bought similar tubes, the same quantity, we were told to fill them with cement, so we poured cement in those tubes ... but we did not say that we have other tubes because if we ded they would have said, sir, pour cement in those as well ... We are going to use the same tubes now. Now we have those tubes." (Channel 4 State TV, January 22, 2019). https://bit.ly/2RLqSHH

These remarks clearly show that the regime's intention in the nuclear negotiations, especially with the P5+1, were based on falsification and concealment, and had no purpose other than gaining more opportunities to obtain nuclear bomb. Hiding unauthorized equipment on Arak site is one of the latest   of series of 30 years of deception and clamor by the mullahs’ regime in nuclear projects under the control of the regime's leaders, especially Khamenei and Rouhani. An issue that the Iranian Resistance has consistently exposed since 1991 and has warned against its threats.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President elect of the Iranian Resistance, immediately warned after the agreement on July 14, 2015: "This agreement does not close the mullahs’ path to deception and access to nuclear bomb", and before that, on November 24, 2013, after a temporary nuclear agreement with P5+1 countries she said, "the regime's compliance with international obligations depends precisely on the degree of decisiveness and firmness of the world community vis-à-vis the regime’s evil intentions and its intrinsic deceptiveness.”

Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that, "any leniency, hesitancy and concessions by the international community will prompt Khamenei to once again move toward manufacturing through deception and cheating. The clerical regime has never volunteered to report its nuclear activities to the IAEA according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Iranian Resistance has been the first party that revealed the regime’s clandestine facilities and its nuclear deception."

In his book "National Security and Nuclear Diplomacy" Rouhani, president of the clerical regime, wrote: "In 2002, the activities were moving in a calm atmosphere, but the Mujahedin (PMOI/MEK) suddenly made a lot of noise by making false accusations… Our Atomic Energy Organization's view was to complete the Natanz facility and then notify the IAEA in a fait accompli ... in 2000, the Atomic Energy Organization promised the [Iranian] authorities that until March 2003, by employing 54,000 centrifuges, would be able to produce 30 tons of enriched fuel of %3.5."

Sunday Telegraph March 5, 2006 disclosed: " In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 until last year, revealed how Teheran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear programme was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

24 January 2019