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Efforts by Ahmadinejad to conceal Iranian regime’s Nuclear Weapons Program

 Desperate efforts by Ahmadinejad to conceal Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program and prevent a globally decisive policy

NCRI – On Friday, April 9, 2010 the regime’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a deceitful attempt boasted about “a new generation of centrifuges.” He said the Natanz nuclear site after installing some 60,000 centrifuges of new generation would be able to provide the nuclear fuel needed not just for one nuclear reactor, but for 6 reactors. In a phony calculation, he claimed that the electricity generated through Bushehr nuclear reactor would be ten times more cost effective than the electricity generated from oil.

Since the regime is engulfed in domestic and external crises, it is now more than ever intent to obtain nuclear weapons; such statements are meant to hide Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Nuclear experts now have consensus that the nuclear facilities of Tehran are meant to provide the regime with nuclear bomb. Even the regime’s officials and government agencies concede that Tehran’s claims that it would soon obtain the capability to produce enriched uranium in the scale required for nuclear energy are false.

As conceded by the regime, energy generated through nuclear reactors is several times more expensive than other resources such as oil. The Iranian regime’s Parliament, in a confidential expert report in February 2003 stated: “It must be mentioned that Iran has little uranium reserves. The known uranium mines can only provide 20 percent of the fuel for Bushehr 1200-megawatt nuclear power plant. We can therefore expect that the entire appropriation for this project would be wasted similar to the funds allocated to this program before the revolution in 1979.” While referring to the nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak which were exposed by the NCRI in 2002, the report adds: “the parliament was unaware of these two major projects and affiliated programs. It is not clear to the legislative branch from where the budget for these projects were provided. Nor was it aware of how this project began and implemented. In the government’s three-year activity report no mention was made of these projects.”

In the conclusion section of the report which was first revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in a Press Conference in Paris: “the construction of Bushehr reactor, since the beginning was made based on technically flawed grounds … the lack of nuclear fuel in the country is the biggest challenge in the construction of any nuclear reactor. And on the other hand the construction of nuclear reactors will make the country energy dependent on foreign nations which is contrary to the interests of the nation. Every unit of energy generated from gas would be far less expensive than the electricity generated from a nuclear reactor. Investment in nuclear power is two to three times the investment in steam fossile power plants. Therefore construction of nuclear energy reactors will not be economically wise.”

At the same time by resorting to Goebbels-like lies Ahmadinejad claimed “our experts have complete technical know-how in nuclear enrichment”, and that “Iran might be the only country that has a complete nuclear fuel cycle.” And he also claimed that “in 24 hours we manage to enrich the first batch of uranium up to 20 percent.” By making a reference to laser enrichment technology, Ahmadinejad intended to insinuate that Tehran has crossed the point of no return in nuclear technology and no sanctions or decisiveness would be effective.

Obtaining nuclear weapons is the only means for the survival of the religious fascism ruling Iran. At a time that the regime is engulfed in increasing internal infighting, unprecedented social abomination, and heightened international isolation, it would not be able to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Therefore, it requires the international community to take a firm position including imposing immediate and comprehensive military, technological, diplomatic, economic, and oil sanctions.
 
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 10, 2010