Iran Developing Nuclear Weapons

The National Council of Resistance of Iran revealed information that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Of course this claim runs counter to the most recent National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran has ceased it's development of nuclear weapons.

Also, the group claims that North Korean scientists are helping the Iranians develop the weapons as well. Which is exactly the opposite to what North Korean officials told US officials just the other day.

Someone's gotta be telling the truth here. My money is on the NCRI.

BRUSSELS, Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) - Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, an exiled Iranian opposition group said Wednesday, giving details of what it claims is an operational nuclear-warhead development site.

The claims run counter to a US intelligence report released in December which said Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.

That US report led to calls from Tehran, and some other quarters, for UN sanctions against the Iranian regime to be dropped.

"The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing a nuclear bomb," said Mohammad Mohadessin, a leader of the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran.

He presented reporters in Brussels with information he said had been collected on two sites in Iran on top secret studies on nuclear warheads.

The site at Khojir, in a Tehran suburb, is an Iranian defence ministry missile-research site which is developing a nuclear warhead for medium-range missiles, he said.

The other facility, in another Tehran suburb, was described as the "command and control centre" for production of a nuclear bomb.

Mohadessin said the revelations had been handed over to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Tuesday.

North Korean experts are cooperating with the Iranian regime in the project, the Paris-based group said.

"The clerical regime (in Iran) has not ceased its nuclear weapons programme, rather it has expedited its activities and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has taken greater control of the programme," said Mohadessin, chairman of the group's foreign affairs committee.