Iranian regime has not halted nuclear bomb goals as Vienna talks continue

                   

The Iranian regime has not halted its military nuclear program, even as nuclear negotiations with the West continue in Vienna, intelligence from inside the regime can confirm.

The revelation was made by Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at an International Justice Committee press conference in Brussels on November 20.

Mr Mohaddessin said: "From the outset the Iranian regime’s objective has been to obtain a nuclear bomb. Peaceful nuclear energy has never been the objective of the nuclear projects."

He revealed a secret document that Iranian Resistance sources had obtained from inside the regime that dates back to 2004.

Mr Mohaddessin said: "The secret report... shows that even the Iranian regime’s loyal Parliament learned of the Natanz and Arak sites only after their disclosure by the Iranian Resistance,” based on the information obtained by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

"This report unambiguously states: 'The budget for Natanz and Arak sites has not been included in the country’s official budget that is approved by the parliament, and the parliament had not been aware of it.

"Secondly, nuclear energy is not cost effective for Iran as it costs three times as much as the energy produced by fossil fuel.

"This document on its own is a very strong indicator of the fact that the Iranian nuclear program could not have the benign and peaceful nature that the Iranian regime keeps claiming. Rather its objective and purpose is military and illicit."

He added: "According to the recent intelligence that the Iranian resistance has ascertained from its network inside of Iran, in particular from inside of the regime, none of the organizations and entities that have been engaged in weaponization and military aspects of the Iranian nuclear program has slowed down or stopped its functions.

"On the contrary some have stepped up their work while the degree of secrecy has been increased dramatically.

"Our information shows that the Iranian regime is concurrently working on all projects aimed at attaining the necessary elements for the nuclear bomb such as adequate enriched uranium, the nuclear warhead, launchers to carry the warhead, and nuclear detonators."

"The decision-maker on the negotiations is none other than the Supreme Leader. Another part of our intelligence shows that Khamenei has drawn red lines for negotiations which state that no agreement that will obstruct the advancement of the nuclear weapons project should be accepted."

The regime’s officials had two scenarios in the Vienna negotiations, Mr Mohaddessin said.

Their best scenario is for the regime to sign the final accord by extracting concessions that would leave open the path to the bomb, and the least acceptable scenario is to postpone the accord, buy time, and continue the negotiations.

He added: "Let there be no ambiguity. The nuclear bomb is an essential aspect of the clerical regime’s strategy for survival and it will not abandon it unless it is left with no option.

"I would like to reiterate the warning by Mrs Maryam Rajavi about the dangers of a fundamentalist regime armed with the nuclear bomb, and who stresses that any accord that fails to include the following three essential elements would leave the regime's path open to the nuclear bomb."

He said these are: the complete implementation of the Security Council resolutions, a complete halt to enrichment and the acceptance of the Additional Protocol and snap inspections.

He concluded: "Any concessions to the mullahs in whatever realm distances them from abandoning the nuclear weapons project. It appears that the United States is planning to ignore the regime’s human rights record and to turn a blind eye to its dangerous and criminal interventions in Iraq and Syria, in the hope of arriving at a nuclear deal.

"His policy not only fans the flames and spreads war in the region, but brings the regime closer to its long sought objective to obtain the nuclear bomb."