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Twenty years of Iranian cover-ups and Western hesitations have brought the Islamic Republic very close to nuclear weapons.
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By Armin Arefi
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Sspeaking out has changed the course of modern Iranian history. On August 14, 2002, Alireza Jafarzadeh, spokesperson for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, revealed during a press conference at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington the existence of two secret Iranian nuclear sites: a nuclear enrichment plant uranium in Natanz, in the center of the country, and a heavy water reactor in Arak, southwest of Tehran. This opponent of the Islamic Republic, member of the Iranian People’s Mojahedin Organization, thus claims to have proof of Iran’s pursuit of a clandestine nuclear program aimed at acquiring the atomic bomb.
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