NCRI – Simultaneous with the current session of the IAEA's Board of Governors, which is reviewing the Iranian regime's nuclear program, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi urged the Board of Governors and the United Nations Security Council to act firmly and impose comprehensive sanctions against the regime, and deny it further opportunity to acquire nuclear weapons. Mrs. Rajavi added that the new IAEA report leaves no room for any doubts on the military nature of the mullahs' nuclear program and their attempts to conceal it.
In its recent report, the IAEA pointed out: "The Agency is still awaiting responses to a number of procurement related questions which may shed light, inter alia, on the role of the military related entities and their staff in the procurement of items for Iran's nuclear programme and related technical activities in support of that programme" (para 20). The report added: "With regard to the production of nuclear related components by companies related to defence industries, Iran's response of 23 May 2008 did not provide any new information. Iran has thus far declined to address these issues."
The IAEA report underscores that the clerical regime has not agreed to take necessary transparency measures including "access to additional locations related, inter alia, to the manufacturing of centrifuges, R&D on uranium enrichment, and uranium mining and milling."
The IAEA pointed out, "There remain a number of outstanding issues… which give rise to concerns about possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme."
The Agency's report and remarks by its officials also referred to the clerical regime's project to modify the Shahab-3 missile, making it capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that since 2002 when the Iranian Resistance exposed secret sites in Natanz and Arak, it has stated that the sole objective of this project is to obtain nuclear weapons. Today, the international community has wasted six years in stopping the mullahs' nuclear program through appeasement, procrastination and provision of incentive packages instead of adopting a firm policy. By so doing, it has only emboldened the mullahs in their drive to acquire nuclear weapons.
Mrs. Rajavi highlighted the immediate and grave danger that the clerical regime poses to regional and global peace and stability and urged the Security Council to impose military, diplomatic, technological and oil embargo against the clerical regime.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance reiterated that the ultimate solution to thwarting the threats posed by the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran is democratic change by Iranian people and the Resistance.
Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that the appeasement policy and its most important element, namely the inclusion of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) in the terror list, have acted as the biggest obstacle to change in Iran. She, therefore, called for the removal of the PMOI from the terror lists.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 25, 2008
