Times wrote "Iran is using newly created front companies in a bid to frustrate U.S. and United Nations sanctions on its suspect nuclear programs, according to records and information supplied by a leading Iranian exile dissident group. "
"The In two cases, Iranian authorities have simply changed the name and headquarters mailing address for companies recently targeted for sanctions by the U.S. Treasury and the U.N. Security Council. Both firms — the Pars Tarash Co. and the Farayand Technique Co. — are involved in the testing, production and storage of centrifuges needed to enrich uranium, a critical technical hurdle in the production of nuclear weapons.
" The charges about the use of the new front companies were made by the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which supports the overthrow of the regime in Tehran.
"Council press spokesman Shahin Gobadi said the charges showed the futility of negotiations and compromise to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
"The mullahs will never give up on their quest to obtain a nuclear bomb," he said, calling for "comprehensive technological, weapons, diplomatic and oil sanctions" on Tehran.
“In the Farayand case, according to the NCRI, Iranian officials simply renamed the firm the "Technology of Centrifuge of Iran Co.," relocating the headquarters to an office building in north Tehran. The name and address change came after a visit from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear monitor.
Washington Times reports: “The dissident group also said that Jafar Mohammadi, a senior Defense Ministry nuclear specialist, had recently been named to run the renamed firm.”
Mohammadi was one of seven Iranians named in the December U.N. sanctions order, listed as a technical adviser to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which oversees all Iranian nuclear programs and reports directly to the Iranian regime President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.