Press Association – Claims that the Iranian regime was using “banned” machinery to further its alleged nuclear weapons programme were made at a Westminster news conference today.
Ms Dowlat Nowrouzi, the United Kingdom representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said that at a site 25 miles west of Teheran, the regime was using machines specially designed to shape and mould enriched uranium as part of the secret production of atomic bombs.
“These banned machines are able to simultaneously use pressure and heat to produce uranium spheres for the production of a nuclear bomb. Uranium spheres have no other use,” she said.
Ms Nowrouzi said that the regime had been able to acquire these machines from abroad, using front companies and also to manufacture them at home using foreign designs.
Labour peer Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, chairman of the Parliamentary British Committee for Iran Freedom, described this information as further evidence of the regime’s intention to acquire nuclear weapons.
He and Ms Nowrouzi called for the immediate referral of this matter to the UN Security Council for the adoption of comprehensive sanctions against the regime.