Posted by Tina Grazier
Iran ‘has nuclear warhead factory’, by Marc Champion The Australian
THE Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s controversial nuclear fuel program has given the UN’s nuclear watchdog details of what the group says is a working nuclear warhead factory, visited by North Koreans. ** The facility at Khojir, a Defence Ministry missile research site on the southeast edge of Tehran, is developing a nuclear warhead for use on Iranian medium-range missiles, according to Mohammad Mohaddessin, foreign affairs chief for the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran. ** Mr Mohaddessin also said the NCRI had identified a guest house on a military compound near Khojir that housed North Korean specialists working at the warhead facility. He said the information had been finalised in recent weeks and was current. ** The opposition group is considered by the US and the European Union to be a terrorist organisation, but it has proved correct on several such claims before. ** Yesterday, Mr Mohaddessin passed the information, which includes satellite images, to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, and asked the agency to investigate. ** An IAEA representative said the organisation would check the NCRI’s claim against the agency’s own data and pursue it “if appropriate”.