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Iran: Ahmadinejad inaugurates heavy-water facility in Arak

Iran: Ahmadinejad inaugurates heavy-water facility in ArakNCRI – Mullahs’ regime is planning to annually produce 14 kilograms of weapon’s grade plutonium by the end of 2007.

Despite repeated demands by the international community that the Iranian regime suspend its heavy-water reactor project, the president of the mullahs’ regime Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the facility in Arak yesterday.

In 2002, the National Council of Resistance of Iran was first to reveal the existence of the installation in Arak which is capable of producing weapon’s grade plutonium.

On August 24, 2006, the NCRI held a press conference in Paris in which it disclosed that the regime’s experts were working day and night so that the facility could reach production. 

The NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin said in the regard, "The mullahs’ regime is trying to annually produce 14 kilograms of weapon’s grade plutonium, sufficient for two atomic bombs, by the end of 2007 in the heavy-water facility in Arak."  

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 27, 2006