Senior Iranian regime official acknowledges deceptive measures during nuclear talks

Senior Iranian regime official acknowledges deceptive measures during nuclear talks

Arak heavy water reactor site, central Iran

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Feb. 2, 2019 - Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian regime’s Atomic Energy Organization referred to more deceptive and misleading measures by the mullahs’ regime during the talks that led to the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“We were enriching uranium at 20 percent during the talks and we never told any of the negotiation parties about such measures,” Salehi said in a recent state TV interview.

“We were able to produce our own 20 percent fuel in less than two years and yet we were also involved in negotiations… Afterwards there were the talks with Turkey and Brazil. We were continuing our work and we knew these talks would lead to nowhere. Finally, at the West’s utter disbelief and shock, we announced that in less than two years we had reached 20 percent fuel of our own and inserted into the reactor,” he explained.

The regime’s Atomic Energy Organization chief also complained of warnings issued by U.S. President Donald Trump resulting in China decreasing its nuclear cooperation – under the JCPOA framework – with the mullahs’ regime at the Arak heavy water reactor site in central Iran.

“We now have a large company of around 900 experts, including the Chinese, who are working on re-designing the Arak reactor. It has been one or two months that considering the pressures imposed by Trump the work is proceeding a bit slow. We are in talks to have this working group bring an end to this slowing of pace… If they continue this trend, we will do the work ourselves and have a variety of options before us in this regard. I cannot explain any further,” he said.

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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.”

Dan Coats, Director of U.S. National Intelligence, delivered the following remarks on the Iranian regime in his opening statement during a recent Senate hearing.

“The Iranian regime will continue pursuing regional ambitions and improved military capabilities, even while its own economy is weakening by the day. Domestically, regime hardliners will be more emboldened to challenge rival centrists and we expect more unrest in Iran in the months ahead.

“Tehran continues to sponsor terrorism as the recent European arrests of Iranian operatives plotting attacks in Europe demonstrate. We expect Iran will continue supporting the Huthis in Yemen and Shia militants in Iraq, while developing indigenous military capabilities that threaten US forces and allies in the region. Iran maintains the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.

“… Iranian officials have publicly threatened to push the boundaries of JCPOA restrictions if Iran does not gain the tangible financial benefits it expected from the deal. Its efforts to consolidate its influence in Syria and arm Hizballah have prompted Israeli airstrikes; these actions underscore our concerns about the long-term trajectory of Iranian influence in the region and the risk of conflict escalation.

“All four of these states – China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran – are advancing their cyber capabilities, which are relatively low-cost and growing in potency and severity… And Iraqi Shia militants’ attempts to further entrench their role in the state, with the assistance of Iran, will increase the threat to U.S. personnel.”