Following a week-long campaign of threats and blackmail, the clerical regime started the process of breaking off the seals of the Isfahan nuclear facility last night. French news agency quoted remarks by Supreme National Security Spokesman (SNSC) Ali Agha Mohammadi on the state-run television in which he said, "Initial preparations have been made. Inspectors from the IAEA are working, controlling (surveillance) cameras and making their own controls so that the seals can be removed," nuclear negotiator Ali Agha Mohammadi said on state television. When their work is completed this will mean that the (uranium conversion) plant at Isfahan will restart. It is routine and practical work but from our point of view Isfahan is already back online."
In a letter sent simultaneously to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the mullahs claimed brazenly, "Iran wants to ensure that no effort is spared in order to reach a negotiated resumption of its enrichment activities. It is therefore, prepared to continue in good faith and in an expeditious and result-oriented manner."
Starting up the Isfahan facility and this demagogic position make it crystal clear that negotiations between the European Union and the ruling theocracy have utterly failed. Former SNSC secretary and nuclear point man Hassan Rowhani as well as other officials acknowledged that the 21-month talks provided the greatest opportunity for the regime to complete different parts of its nuclear weapons project. Ten days ago, Rowhani said that at the start of the talks, "neither UF4, nor HF6 had been produced in Isfahan. In fact, no such thing as Isfahan facility existed… Today, we have started up and tested Isfahan on an industrial scale and several tons of UF6 have been produced… We did not suspend work at Isfahan site for a moment, until we completed it and had results. Arak was never suspended to begin with."
Commenting on Isfahan facility’s start-up, Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said, "In truth, EU’s policy of appeasement and flexibility vis-à-vis the clerical regime has provided the technological capabilities, sufficient time and a favorable political climate for the advancement of nuclear weapons projects." He added, "The EU’s concessions in the past two years, especially the offer to keep the People’s Mojahedin Organization on the EU’s terrorist list in return for Tehran restricting its nuclear programs, were a clear sign of weakness on the part of the international community and only emboldened the terrorists ruling Iran to continue their nuclear projects."
Now that there are no doubts as to the clerical regime’s intensions to obtain nuclear weapons, negotiations must be abandoned. The first necessary step to prevent the mullahs from acquiring the atomic bomb is to immediately refer their nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council for the adoption of binding punishments.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 2, 2005