Iran on Friday denied a claim by the country's main opposition
organization which had accused Tehran of constructing secret
underground nuclear site in central Iran for military use.
Javad Vaidi, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council noted in a statement that the country's chief nuclear
negotiator Ali Larijani had "denied the related accusations and
there's no secret nuclear site in Iran."
"The purposes of making such baseless allegations are to destroy
the positive atmosphere ... created by Iran's cooperation with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the president's trip
to New York," Vaidi said.
A senior member of the anti-government National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told a press conference on Thursday in
Paris that the Iranian government was currently building an
underground nuclear site mainly for military use.
The secret site was just 5 km away from the sensitive Natanz
nuclear facilities and has a connective tunnel with Natanz, it
added.
The NCRI, an alias of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO),
has been listed as terrorist group by the US and the EU several
years ago.
The NCRI accusation came at a time when the international
community was discussing a possible new round of sanctions against
Iran's nuclear program.
The US has accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons under a
civilian cover, and has pushed the UN Security Council to adopt its
third sanction resolution against the Islamic Republic.
Iran has denied the accusation, saying its nuclear program is
only for civilian use as the country just wants to generate
electricity.
(Xinhua News Agency September 29, 2007)
