Opposition claims secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran

AFP – Iranian oppositional leaders claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site in the mountains northwest of Tehran run by the Iranian defense ministry.

Information obtained by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran has revealed that Iran began building the site in Abyek, about 120 kilomters (70 miles) northwest of Tehran, in 2005, spokespeople for the group said.

AFP – Iranian oppositional leaders claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site in the mountains northwest of Tehran run by the Iranian defense ministry.

Information obtained by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran has revealed that Iran began building the site in Abyek, about 120 kilomters (70 miles) northwest of Tehran, in 2005, spokespeople for the group said.

"Eighty-five percent of the construction work has been completed," Soona Samsami, who was US representative for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told reporters.

Samsami and Alireza Jafarzadeh, former NCRI media spokesman, said this week they shared the information about the site with the US government and the UN nuclear watchdog, the Internantional Atomic Energy Agency.

There was no immediate reaction from those bodies.