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Watch Out, Atomic Ayatollahs: Trump Shifts From N. Korea To Iran

Forbes, Apr 23, 2017 – Last week, the Trump administration served notice it was taking on Iran just before an Iranian dissident group outed another covert nuclear facility involved in what surely must be a weaponization program.
Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson certified to Congress that Iran was in compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the July 2015 agreement between Iran and the P5+1, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, and the European Union.

 

 

 

The certification is the Trump administration’s first. Certifications are required every 90 days by the terms of the agreement.
The same day, Tillerson condemned Iran and announced that the administration is conducting an interagency review of the JCPOA, as the landmark deal is known.
Perhaps the administration was too hasty with the certification. Friday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a dissident group that has targeted Tehran’s nuclear weapons program, charged that Iran is conducting explosives testing at a facility south of Tehran, within the infamous Parchin military base.

 

 

 

The testing, inside buildings in an area known at Plan 6, would be a violation of the JCPOA. Explosives are used to trigger a nuclear device.
“The engineering unit that is charged and tasked with actually building the bomb in a secret way for the Iranian regime is called the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research,” said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of NCRI’s Washington office, at a press conference. “Our information shows that their activities have been continuing in full gear, despite the JCPOA.”
NCRI accurately outed Iran’s underground uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz and the heavy-water production facility at Arak but has sometimes misfired in its allegations.

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