{"id":258225,"date":"2022-04-25T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=258225"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:49:57","slug":"iran-if-it-wasnt-for-the-mek-tehran-would-have-built-the-bomb-former-official-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-if-it-wasnt-for-the-mek-tehran-would-have-built-the-bomb-former-official-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: If It Wasn\u2019t for the MEK, Tehran Would Have Built the Bomb, Former Official Admits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"isca-ali-motahari\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-258226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari.jpg\" alt=\"isca-ali-motahari\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/isca-ali-motahari-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Enjoying a level of impunity due to being the son of an Ayatollah and a former deputy speaker of the parliament (Majlis), Ali Mottahari made a startling revelation in his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iscanews.ir\/news\/1137747\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Iscanews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cFrom the very beginning, when we started with the nuclear activity, our goal was to build a bomb and reinforce our deterrence powers, but we were unable to maintain confidentiality as confidential reports were leaked by the hypocrites&#8217; group,\u201d Motahari said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The &#8216;Hypocrites&#8217; is the regime\u2019s pejorative term for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\">MEK\/PMOI<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cA country that wants to use nuclear peacefully never starts with (uranium) enrichment, rather it first establishes a reactor and then enters the enrichment field,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But starting to enrich directly creates the suspicion that we want to build a bomb. If we could build and test bombs clandestinely like Pakistan, it would be very deterrent. Other countries take notice of nuclear power, so I believe we should have ended what we started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Expressing pessimism regarding the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=d201294e6a5334ad0&amp;q=https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/irans-regime-on-borrowed-time-the-west-should-stand-firm\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwizvqm8na_3AhVICuwKHTdVBt0QFnoECAAQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw3y2-nII4qfA2Z0u_NDaftM\">nuclear talks in Vienna<\/a>, the former MP added: \u201cIn the past, we have tried to secure some guarantees so that Americans can&#8217;t break their promises, but we didn\u2019t have the power to. It&#8217;s the same thing as today. If we are going to make a deal, we need to make sure that Americans are bound to it. In the early days when the JCPOA was being finalized and its implementation began, if it was treated properly and if we had allowed all European and American companies to come to invest, Americans would not have been able to undermine everything so easily because they were stuck themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Offering testimony that Tehran was in breach of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, Motahari said: \u201cThe missile test that was conducted two or three days after the JCPOA was signed, was also one of the behaviors that had a negative message for the implementation of the JCPOA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While slamming other Iranian state officials\u2019 rhetoric about a \u201cresistant economy\u201d and \u201cbeing sanctions-proof\u201d, the former deputy speaker of the parliament said: \u201cThe reality is that Iran cannot advance without foreign investment. To say that we don\u2019t care about the JCPOA is wrong. Statements like \u2018we don\u2019t care about sanctions and we will bypass them all at what cost\u2019 are just slogans and the cost is going out of ordinary people&#8217;s pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mottahari also doubled down on the regime\u2019s regional ambitions and said: \u201cThe presence of Iranian contractors in Syria was the right thing to do. If we hadn&#8217;t interfered in Syria, Hezbollah would have been restricted, and there would have been a high probability that a government in Syria would be able to tie Hezbollah&#8217;s hands. We will never stop supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even though covering a great variety of domestic and international hot topics, these statements unleashed a stir among state media and were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isna.ir\/news\/1401020502018\/\">rapidly denied<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=d201294e6a5334ad0&amp;q=https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-report\/timeline-of-ncris-revelations-to-prevent-a-nuclear-armed-iran\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjGnKSJnq_3AhUBuKQKHe1nBgsQFnoECAkQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw2H0RXPz_QwyM_6k-TAco3P\">Iranian regime\u2019s Atomic Energy Agency Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoying a level of impunity due to being the son of an Ayatollah and a former deputy speaker of the parliament (Majlis), Ali Mottahari made a startling revelation in his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":258226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[197,217,220],"class_list":{"0":"post-258225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-nuclear","9":"tag-mek-iran","10":"tag-irans-nuclear-program","11":"tag-sanctions"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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