Iran Friday denied claims by an exiled opposition group that it has built a new hidden nuclear site deep beneath a mountain near the town of Damavand in Tehran province.
Iran
Friday denied claims by an exiled opposition group that it has built a new
hidden nuclear site deep beneath a mountain near the town of
Damavand
in
Tehran
province.
"This information is false and we reject it," foreign ministry
spokesman Abbas Araqchi told the Mehr news agency.
On Thursday, the People's Mujahedin of Iran said it has evidence of a new
hidden nuclear site that
Iran
was
constructing secretly.
"The organization of the People's Mujahedin of Iran [MEK] has discovered
credible evidence of a secret new nuclear site, gathered over a year by 50
sources in various parts of the regime," said a statement from the
National Council of Resistance of Iran, the umbrella group of which MEK is a
part.
"The code name of the project is 'Ma'adan-e Sharq' [literally 'the mine of
the east'] or 'Project Kossar.' This site is hidden in a series of tunnels
under a mountain near the town of
Damavand
,"
it said.
The Paris-based militant group MEK alleges that the site has existed since
2006, with the first series of subterranean tunnels and four external depots
recently completed.
The group also claims that president-elect Hassan Rowhani, a former nuclear
negotiator, played a "key role" in the program.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said it "will assess
the information that has been provided, as we do with any new information we
receive."
Iran
is
suspected by much of the West and arch-rival
Israel
of
wanting to develop atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear
program, a charge
Tehran
strongly denies.
It has been slapped with several rounds of sanctions by the United Nations as
well as Washington and the European Union for continuing to enrich uranium.
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