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Iran\u2019s regime is planning to acquire more lands in Qom to expand one of its nuclear facilities, according to a document published by \u201cGhyamSarnegouni”<\/a> (“Rise to Overthrow” in Farsi), a group of Iranian dissidents that managed to breach the servers of the regime’s presidency on May 29 and gain access to a trove of classified documents and internal messages.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The newly published document, a letter stamped as \u201ctop secret,\u201d is issued by the legal deputy of the regime\u2019s president, Ebrahim Raisi, to the <\/span>Vice President of Development of Management and Resources of the Atomic Energy Organization. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This letter, sent on March 13, 2023, confirms that, unlike Tehran\u2019s repeated denial of expanding its nuclear weapons program, the regime continues to allocate resources to this effort.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAbout the letter No. 81\/M\/5951 dated February 9, 2023, of the respected governor of Qom (picture of the letter and attached records) regarding the request of this organization for handing over 1,162,308 square meters of the national territories of registered land 1 of the main 47 of section 3 known as Gaumshili, located in Qom city, Qom province, for the development of Martyr Alimohammadi Enrichment Complex, in the implementation of Note 1, Article (69) of the law on the regulation of part of the government’s financial regulations, to be able to review the request, please complete and send the documents,\u201d the letter writes in this regard. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Martyr Alimohammadi Enrichment complex is the infamous \u201cFordow\u201d enrichment complex that was first exposed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) based on the information obtained by its main constituent group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) organization. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On December 20, 2005, Mohammad Mohaddessin, the Chair of NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed the existence<\/a> of a secret nuclear facility and an underground tunnel used for nuclear projects near Qom in central Iran. He revealed that construction began in 2000 by an engineering division of the IRGC. Four years later, US, British, and French leaders confirmed the existence of the same site, Fordow, in a joint press conference on September 25, 2009. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The revealed letter urges the Iranian regime\u2019s Atomic Energy Organization to take \u201cusual necessary actions,\u201d including: \u201cExplanatory plan and documentation confirming the need and necessity of implementing the desired plan (documents related to the approval of the plan in the competent reference – notification of the development credit of the country’s Planning and Budget organization – mutual agreement (in case of exchange).\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It also urges the organization to acquire the \u201copinion of the country’s Planning and Budget organization regarding the amount of area required for the project (first of all, it i<\/span>istry of Roads and Urban Development (National Land and Housing Organization)) regarding the supply situation from all aspects (including) from a legal perspective, vegetation cover, place of occurrence, history of handing over and progress of project implementation) (it is necessary to submit the UTM map of the desired area to the relevant department first).\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to this exposed letter, Raisi\u2019s legal deputy also urges the Vice President of Development of Management and Resources of Atomic Energy Organization to get the \u201cConfirmation of the country’s property and documents registration organization regarding the location of the desired area on the cadastral layer.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Acquiring nuclear weapons is a crucial element in the Iranian regime’s survival strategy. At first, the regime claimed it would not pursue nuclear energy and even halted the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was being built by German companies. However, the mullahs soon realized that a young and democratic Iranian society was threatening their rule. So, they changed their strategy and began pursuing nuclear weapons technology as an “insurance policy” against their eventual downfall.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>s necessary to provide all the information and documents required by that organization),\u201d and the \u201copinion of the custodian body (according to the case of the organization of forests, pastures, and watershed management of the country with the Min<\/span><\/p>\n For over three decades, the ruling clerics in #Tehran<\/a>, who continue to harbor ambitions of inaugurating a regional Islamic Caliphate to this day, have been desperately trying to join the #nuclear<\/a> club.https:\/\/t.co\/EiJenArCtm<\/a><\/p>\n — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"RAISI's](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/RAISIs-Order-to-Expand-Fordo-page-0004.jpg\" "\\"RAISI's")
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