NCRI – The new revelation by the National Council of resistance of Iran(NCRI) divulging mullahs’ new nuclear site received extensively by the international media.
In a press conference in Paris on Thursday, Mr. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Chairman of the NCRI’s Peace Committee revealed details of a secret nuclear site under construction in Iran.
NCRI – The new revelation by the National Council of resistance of Iran(NCRI) divulging mullahs’ new nuclear site received by the international media extensively.
In a press conference in Paris on Thursday, Mr. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Chairman of the NCRI’s Peace Committee revealed details of a secret nuclear site under construction in Iran.
Daily Telegraph, London:
The opposition group that first revealed the existence of Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz claimed that Iran was building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said the regime was near to completing a vast underground chamber that was linked by two tunnels to the existing complex at Natanz, and was protected against aerial attack.
L’Monde
On Thursday September 27th, in Paris, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced that Iran is building a new underground nuclear site. This site is near the Natanz facility where Iran is currently enriching uranium.
The spokesperson of NCRI stated that the site is 5 kilometers south of Natanz near the village of Abasabad and is protected from air strikes. It is connected to Natanz facility via 3 connecting tunnels. The vicinity is considered a military area and is controlled by the Revolutionary Guards Corp.
Associated Press:
National Council of Resistance of Iran claimed that the site is 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of the Natanz plant, located under a mountain called Siah Kooh, which it said would help protect it from any air strike. It said the site includes two tunnels with entrances 6 meters (20 feet) in diameter and that a third tunnel links the alleged facility to Natanz.
Aljazeera:
In a press conference in Paris, Mr Mehdi Abrishamchi revealed construction of a new secret nuclear site in Iran. Mr. Abrishamchi added, this site is located in center of Iran and within 5 kilometers from Natanz nuclear site.
He said that the new nuclear site is in the heart of mountains south of Natanz to be protected against aerial attacks.
Nouvel Observateur, France:
Information we have from inside the regime indicates that the site is destined for military nuclear activity, mainly for the further enrichment of uranium," Mehdi Abrichamtchi, of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told a news conference.
The new site in central Iran consists of a "vast underground area beneath the Karkass mountains linked to the surface by two tunnels and connecting with a third tunnel" to the Natanz nuclear complex, five kilometers (three miles) away, he said.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
National Council of Resistance of Iran in a press conference in Paris revealed construction of a new secret nuclear site in Iran. The site is located in center of Iran and within 5 kilometers from Natanz nuclear site.
Reuters:
National Council of Resistance of Iran Peace Commission’s President Mehdi Abrichamchi shows a picture of a clandestine nuclear site in Iran during a news conference in Paris September 27, 2007.
Voice of America:
An Iranian opposition group says the Iranian government is building a secret underground military nuclear facility near its existing complex at Natanz in the central part of the country.
The opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran made the assertion at a news conference in Paris Thursday.
The group said its information came from sources within Iran, and indicates that the underground facility is five kilometers from the Natanz complex and will be operational in six months.
Bahrain Daily News:
Iran is building a secret, new underground military nuclear facility near its Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
The opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran said, at a Paris news conference, that the site is 5kms south of the Natanz plant, under a mountain called Siah Kooh, which it said would help protect it from any air strike. It said the site includes two tunnels with entrances six metres in diameter and that a third tunnel links the alleged facility to Natanz.
Press Association:
An Iranian resistance group has claimed that Iran is constructing a secret underground military nuclear facility near its Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
The claim, made by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Paris, could not be independently verified.
The group said it has passed its information, which it said came from sources inside Iran, to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, but has so far not received a response.
AFP:
Iran is building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons, linked by tunnel to an existing complex at Natanz, the main Iranian opposition group said Thursday.
"Information we have from inside the regime indicates that the site is destined for military nuclear activity, mainly for the further enrichment of uranium," Mehdi Abrichamtchi, of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told a news conference.
In 2002 the NCRI was the first to reveal the existence of secret nuclear facilities at the towns of Arak and Natanz. Its new allegations come at a time of growing international tension over Iran’s nuclear programme.
APA (Austrian News Agency):
Teheran is about to establish a new underground nuclear site for military purposes near atomic center of Natanz. This was revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran on Thursday in Paris in a press conference. “The plant is underground. In case of a bomb attack on Natanz it is not destroyed”, stressed NCRI’s official Mehdi Abrichamtchi.
Al-Seyassah, Kuwait:
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (opposition) yesterday said that Iran is currently building a new underground nuclear site and this military site is close to Natanz nuclear site.
Mahdi Abrichmchi, the NCRI official said during a press conference in Paris "the site is protected from air attacks".
