FIRST ON FOX – A brand new report from an Iranian resistance group alleges that the Islamist regime has attempted to dodge U.S. sanctions on its nuclear packages by shifting personnel and sources to a college intently related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Ever since The Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) uncovered the Iranian regime’s beforehand undisclosed nuclear program in 2002 … the regime has persistently thwarted the IAEA’s efforts to uncover the complete scope of its nuclear weapons ambitions,” Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the Washington workplace of the NCRI instructed Fox Information Digital.
“Our revelations have proven that Tehran’s nuclear program has at all times been about constructing the nuclear bomb, and it’s run by the IRGC,” he argued. “The weaponization a part of the nuclear program has not solely remained intact however has expanded and enhanced with no significant scrutiny.” Jafarzadeh first revealed the small print of Iran’s nuclear program in 2002.
The NCRI issued a report by which it mentioned how Iran shifted its nuclear program personnel and sources positioned on U.S. sanctions to the Islamic Azad College. The U.S. listed the Group of Defensive Innovation and Analysis (SPND) on the international sanctions list, and college personnel requested researchers to “current their actions as being in service of entrance corporations.”
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The NCRI claimed to have gathered its info by a community of the Folks’s Mojahedin Group, generally known as the MEK, from inside Iran, together with experiences from inside “the regime entities.”
Iran’s first functioning nuclear energy plant in Bushehr, Iran, on April 28, 2024. (Photograph by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs)
“With a purpose to protect SPND, the Ministry of Protection and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) has tried to create a brand new and higher cowl to proceed its operations, ostensibly making it work on a sequence of superior navy instances with a purpose to divert consideration and reduce give attention to its major objective of creating nuclear weapons,” the report says.
Shortly earlier than his sudden loss of life, former Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi handed the SPND Act in April, ordering the Ministry of Protection to implement the plan inside a month and make the SPND “an unbiased authorized entity with the character of a public establishment and has monetary, transactional and administrative independence.”
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An Iranian navy truck carries surface-to-air missiles previous a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei throughout a parade on the event of the nation’s annual military day on April 18, 2018 in Tehran, Iran. (Photograph by ATTA KENARE/AFP through Getty Photographs)
The regulation additionally empowers the group to behave while not having to adjust to the regulation of public accounting in Iran. In accordance with the report, the Islamic Azad College system is situated all through the nation and is among the largest techniques of universities on the planet, counting over 1 million college students and over 50,000 educational employees. The college was based with the blessing of the founding father of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayotallah Ruhollah Khomenei
“Use of Islamic Azad College for nuclear analysis is in line with the regime’s earlier actions,” the NCRI wrote.
Mohammad Ali Zolfigol, Minister of Science, Analysis and Know-how on the proper, speaks with Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, president of the Islamic Azad College, on April 14, 2023 in Tehran, Iran. Tehranchi was reportedly concerned within the regime’s nuclear warhead undertaking. (Sara Abdollahi/Borna Information/ATPImages/Getty Photographs)
The NCRI report ties a number of main figures at Islamic Azad University with the SPND, resembling Mohammad Medhi Tehranchi, at present president of the college and previously a professor of physics at Beheshti College with “shut connections with SPND.” Tehranchi was reportedly concerned within the regime’s nuclear warhead undertaking and labored straight with Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was seen as the daddy of the regime’s nuclear weapons program.
The group additionally recognized Jamshid Sabbaghzadeh, head of the college’s Science and Analysis Middle, which is “the most important college analysis middle in Iran.” Beforehand, he labored on laser analysis and joined the Atomic Power Group and labored on nuclear enrichment.
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Jafarzadeh lamented the “Western powers” coverage of “appeasement,” arguing that Iran has confronted little punishment for its actions to keep away from sanctions.
“In some ways, the Iranian regime leverages its nuclear program as a device to blackmail the worldwide neighborhood, demanding additional concessions whereas concurrently intensifying its efforts to amass nuclear weapons,” Jafarzadeh mentioned.
“Tehran’s technique has prevented decisive motion towards different facets of its malevolent habits, resembling egregious human rights violations, terrorism, and hostage-taking, and belligerent interference all through the Center East,” he added, insisting that at this stage the one strategy to create actual change will come from inside with regime change “led by the Iranian folks and their organized resistance.”
The U.S. Nationwide Safety Council didn’t reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark by time of publication.
