Secret Iranian nuke facility revealed - Jerome R. Corsi - http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/secret-iranian-nuke-facility-revealed/
Throws wrench in Obama's negotiations with Islamic regime
As the Obama administration negotiates a controversial nuclear agreement with Iran, a dissident group is revealing evidence Tehran is operating a secret uranium-enrichment site northeast of the capital city.
The disclosure Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI, threatens to undermine the credibility of any nuclear agreement the Obama administration might reach with the radical Islamic clerics that have controlled the government in Tehran since Ayatollah Khomeni's revolution in 1979.
NCRI's deputy director, Alireza Jafarzadeh, said Iran cannot be trusted.
"How in the world can the United States expect to get an agreement from Iran to end their nuclear program, when we continue to find Iran is developing and operating secret nuclear facilities that are withheld even from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Administration?" Jafarzadeh asked.
"Iran has lied repeatedly about its secret nuclear facilities, and then when Iran is caught, the government gives you two more lies," he said.
Jafarzadeh and Soona Samsami, U.S. representative of NCRI, identified the secret nuclear site as Lavizan-3, located in the northeastern suburbs of Tehran.
They said it operates advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges under the cover of an Intelligence Ministry center.
The NCRI disclosure was developed by the Mujahedin-e Klaq, MEK, the group's political arm in Iran founded in 1965 to oppose Khomeini's radical Islamic revolution.
NCRI has a track record of accurately disclosing secret Iranian uranium enrichment sites. In 2002, NCRI revealed Iran's top secret uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, some 100 miles north of Isfahan, and a second top secret Iranian nuclear plant in Arak, approximately 150 miles south of Tehran, designed to produce heavy water for the production of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.
The Lavizan-3 site is about 500 by 500 yards, with the primary nuclear facility buried deep underground, NCRI said. It consists of four parallel halls, each more than 200 yards long. The facility was constructed by the Iranian Defense Ministry under the direction of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Brig. Gen. Seyyed Ali Hosseini-Tash, then the deputy defense minister, and Kalaye Electric Company, affiliated with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, responsible for the enrichment of uranium.
Jafarzadeh said there is "no way to insure Iran is not developing secret nuclear weapons if Tehran keeps nuclear sites like Lavizan-3 hidden even from the IAEA such that the sites cannot be subject to international inspection."
"This is especially important when you are talking about a regime that has a track record of lying, cheating and deceiving the whole world," he said. "That is why the U.S. government and the IAEA should take this information very seriously."
Jafarzadeh emphasized the importance of the disclosure of yet another secret Iranian nuclear site as the negotiations with the U.S. in Geneva are approach a March 31 deadline.
"This site, Levizan-3, must be inspected and there should be no delay," he said. "It is absolutely senseless to continue the negotiations discussing how many centrifuges Iran will be allowed to have going forward when we have these serious outstanding issues lingering out there."
Jafarzadeh said NCRI shared the disclosures with top levels of the U.S. government and with the IAEA.
The disclosures were a "revelation" to the IAEA, he said.
"Under current IAEA agreements, the operation of Levizan-3 is in clear violation of IAEA requirements to inform the IAEA of all developments in Iranian nuclear research and development, as well as a violation of numerous United Nations Security Council decrees, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," he said.
An NCRI statement said the "notion that the mullahs will abandon their nuclear weapons program through nuclear talks is a misguided narrative, which is the byproduct of the mullahs' duplicity and western economic and political expediency."
"Those who hope to secure the regime's cooperation in the campaign against fundamentalism by offering nuclear concessions to the mullahs are both increasing the chances of a nuclear-armed Iran and contributing to the spread of Islamic fundamentalism," NCRI said.
In a prepared statement she read at the press conference,
Samsami said in a prepared statement that research and development with advanced centrifuges in secret sites are only intended to advance Iran's nuclear weapons project.
"Why else would the Iranian regime deceive the world into believing it had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, when Levizan-3 was in preparation from 2004 through 2008?" she asked.
"If the United States is serious about preventing the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons, the United States must make the continuation of talks conditional on the IAEA's immediate inspection of the Levizan-3 site," she stressed. "Any delay in doing so will enable the Iranian regime to destroy the evidence as it has done in the past."
In 2005, WND Books published "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." The author, senior staff writer Jerome Corsi, argued Iranian supporters in the U.S. of the Islamic regime, including New York-based investment banker Hassan Nemazee, had influenced U.S. politicians such as then-Sen. John Kerry to take campaign contributions in exchange for accepting an Iranian promise of developing nuclear capabilities only for energy.
In 2004, Nemazee served as the New York finance chairman for Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, followed by serving as finance chairman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
In her 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton chose Nemazee to serve as her national finance director.
On March 2010, Nemazee, then 60, pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently applying for and receiving some $292 million in loans. As chairman of Nemazee Capital, he received the loans from Citicorp, Bank of America and HSBC to buy property in Westchester County, make campaign contributions to Democratic Party politicians, donate to charity and to support his lavish society lifestyle.
On July 15, 2010, U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced Namazee to more than 12 years in federal prison on multiple federal criminal counts of bank and wire fraud.
Alongside negotiations with the US on a nuclear deal, Iran practices destroying American Gulf vessels - http://www.debka.com/article/24423/Alongside-negotiations-with-the-US-on-a-nuclear-deal-Iran-practices-destroying-American-Gulf-vessels-
The blasts and missile fire must have been heard even as far away as Geneva, where this week US and Iranian negotiators were trying to wrap up a nuclear deal. Scores of small naval speedboats descended in a swarm Wednesday, Feb. 25, on a huge "American target," while missiles blasted it from the shore and ground-to-air rockets shot down fake US warplanes on a simulated bombing mission over Iran.
Iran deliberately chose to stage this crudely anti-American naval exercise in the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which one-sixth of the world's oil product passes day by day. An earlier exercise took place in the same area in December.
"Wiping out the American Navy in the Persian Gulf in the space of a few hours," was the object of the exercise as designated in a secret document drawn up at a special consultation of senior Revolutionary Guards officers ahead of the practice. debkafile's intelligence sources obtained access to this document, which quoted Adm. Alli Fadavi, head of the Revolutionary Guards Navy as laying down the guidelines for the exercise.
A year ago, on March 23, debkafile first revealed that Iran was building a mock-up of a US carrier. Tehran claimed then it was designed for a movie.
Then, on April 27, 2014, our Iranian sources quoted Adm. Ali Fadavi as ordering Iranian forces to target a replica of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier during their forthcoming war games. "We should learn about the weaknesses and strengths of our enemy" he said.
In 2015, Fadavi was still harping on the same theme.
In his view, America's might in the world stemmed from its military strength, which depended largely on its navy. Therefore, he argued at the consultation for the current war games, that destroying the US Navy would be tantamount to defeating America as a military power and American imperialism, as well as inflicting a mortal blow to the US presence in the region.
An American aircraft carrier, he explained, encapsulates its naval, air and marine forces and has an escort of destroyers, frigates and supply ships. It is our mission, Fadavi said, to blow the entire US naval presence out of the Persian Gulf. "Either you vanquish the enemy, or he will destroy you. Our goal is to devastate the enemy on the waves of the Persian Gulf."
Gen. Mohammad Nazerig, commander of the Iranian naval marine special forces, got down to tactics. The US aircraft carrier and its escort vessels must be blasted in a coordinated assault that also hits their supply ports in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, he said.
Another method would be to seize the carrier in a surprise attack, using Iran's underwater Houth missiles in support of hundreds of Revolutionary Guards speedboats firing rockets. Iran would hold the advantage in this type of operation, said the Iranian general, because its missile boats can go up to a speed of 80 knots while the targeted American vessel can only move at 31 knots.
Acting IRGC Navy Commander Adm. Ali-Reza Tongsari envisaged a coordinated attack on the American carrier ending in its seizure and the unfurling of the Islamic Republic's flag high over its decks. This would signify Islamic Iran's victory over the strongest military force in the world and death to the reputation of the world's only superpower.
Iran is Deployed, 'Planning War' Along Israel's Northern Border - By Hillel Fendel - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191709#.VOymj5vcl9B
Nukes or no nukes, Iran has built an active front from Israel's northwestern sea border all the way to the Golan Heights, warns expert.
Iran has built an active front from Israel's northern Mediterranean border adjacent to Rosh Hanikra, all the way to the Golan Heights. The goal: to undermine and wage war against the "Zionist entity" with conventional, powerful military means from within Lebanon and Syria.
So says Yigal Carmon, Counter-terrorism Adviser to prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin, and founder and president of the prestigious Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
"Iran has taken advantage of the chaos in the Middle East to form a united front from Tehran, through Baghdad, Syria and Lebanon," Carmon told Kol Yisrael public radio on Monday. "It has turned Syria into a Hezbollah-state for this purpose, and is making inroads into the PA-controlled areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza for this purpose."
Carmon and his MEMRI colleague Yael Yehoshua publicized a ten-page treatise on the topic last week, but it has received relatively little publicity.
Iran has several objectives, Carmon explained: "These include deterring Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear capabilities, capturing the Golan from Israel, and the like - but these are sub-objectives. Their main goal is ultimately to destroy Israel."
He said that what must be done now is, at least, to sound the alarm: "During the Yom Kippur War, people saw the threat before them, but many people didn't want to say anything. We must not make that mistake again."
Despite the tensions between Israel and the U.S., Carmon said, "the Americans listen very carefully to what Israel has to say in these areas. We must warn about this from every rooftop. Everyone knows already about the nuclear threat, but this is something new, and more immediate and acute in many respects."
To bolster his case, Carmon quotes from Nahed Al-Hattar - a columnist in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar - who wrote on Feb. 13 of this year: "Israel faces a fateful crisis. As much as it feared the Iranian nuclear program, it never imagined that Iran would be standing on its border even before its nuclear agreement with the Americans was complete."
"The Iranian threat to Israel is no longer theoretical, nor does it have anything to do with Israel's deterrent of using its nuclear weapons, which cannot be used considering the international power balance. The threat has become direct, practical and conventional," Al-Hattar argued.
Prophetic Clock ticks as US Negotiates with Iran - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
Secretary of State John Kerry has been in Iran plotting behind closed doors how to make it look like Iran is never going to have a nuclear weapon. In reality, this Administration has accelerated Iran's plans to go nuclear, risking Israel and the rest of the world to holocaust. It was Pearl Harbor Day in 2005 when then head of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Muhammad El Baradei admitted that if Iran resumed uranium enrichment, it would have a nuclear bomb within a few months. Iran had skillfully used ElBaradei's diplomacy to go from no nuclear weapons program in December 2004 to being just a few months from having a nuclear bomb. Diplomacy is Iran's friend and best weapon. So it remains today.
At that time, there were no direct negotiations with the terrorist sponsoring state. Now the White House chooses to chum up to the Iranian regime, going against longstanding policy to not negotiate with terrorists. In 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that "Israel and other countries cannot accept a situation where Iran has nuclear arms. The issue is clear to us and we are making all the necessary preparations to handle a situation of this kind." Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said he didn't believe the diplomatic efforts of the US and Europe will be successful. Earlier in 2005, Israel's foreign ministry told The Daily Jot that Israel would not wait to act if it believed Iran had a nuclear weapon.
John Kerry declaring "We made progress, "after being holed up with Iranian negotiators on the nuclear question should leave no one with any confidence that the world is a safer place today. AP reports that the US and Iran have moved closer to a deal where Iran can enrich uranium, but would be limited to 700 of the 2,000 pounds it takes to produce a nuclear weapon. Iran is saying it wants to produce up to 29 times that amount. Kerry is saying a deal will come somewhere in between. That should further send chills down the spine of any peace loving human being, unless they are loving the peace of Islam. Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that such a deal would represent "a great danger."
In December 2005, The Daily Jot reported: "So far, the Iranians have out-negotiated and have deceived the world with the help of China and Russia. Rest assured, however, that this is a crisis that has no good end because it signals the beginning of where prophecy and human events mix to form a deadly outcome." Nothing has changed today, except Iran is far closer to having a nuclear weapon thanks to a US "president" and successive Secretary of States who side with Islam. Under the Kerry deal, restrictions on Iran could be lifted in five years. Persia, modern Iran, is cited in Ezekiel 38-39 where nations come against Israel in a colossal end time battle in which "I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel (Ezekiel 39:7)."
Iran forming 'third front' against Israel on Golan: Netanyahu - http://news.yahoo.com/iran-forming-third-front-against-israel-golan-netanyahu-152818891.html
Iran is seeking to open a "third front" against Israel using Hezbollah fighters on the Syrian Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Netanyahu said Tehran's attempts to entrench itself along Israel's borders was one of the biggest emerging security threats facing the Jewish state.
"Alongside Iran's direct guidance of Hezbollah's actions in the north and Hamas's in the south, Iran is trying also to develop a third front on the Golan Heights via the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who are in southern Syria and over which Iran holds direct command," he said.
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said his ministers were to be briefed on "the security challenges developing around us, first and foremost Iran's attempt to increase its foothold on Israel's borders even as it works to arm itself with nuclear weapons."
An Israeli air strike inside the Syrian-controlled sector of the Golan Heights on January 18 killed six members of Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as well as a general from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
Israel neither confirmed nor denied responsibility, but it has carried out several such strikes over the past two years, stressing its policy of preventing arms transfers to militant groups and potential attacks.
Netanyahu said that Tehran's ongoing "murderous terrorism" has "not prevented the international community from continuing to talk with Iran about a nuclear agreement that will allow it to build the industrial capacity to develop nuclear weapons."
World powers are trying to strike a deal with Iran that would prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb in return for an easing of punishing international economic sanctions.
Israel has repeatedly warned that Iran's nuclear program has military objectives, a claim Tehran denies.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was set to arrive in Geneva Sunday for renewed talks with his Iranian counterpart on Tehran's nuclear program, after warning "significant gaps" remain ahead of a key deadline.
Emerging nuclear deal allows Iran to dominate Middle East - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israel-to-US-Emerging-nuclear-deal-would-allow-Iran-to-dominate-Middle-East-391719
Israel's disagreements with the Obama administration over the parameters of an emerging agreement between the West and Iran have been known for years, but are only beginning to manifest in a public way as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress is just weeks away, Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz told The Washington Post over the weekend.
Steinitz articulated his government's position that the agreement being discussed does not adequately safeguard against an Iranian "breakout" to the bomb should the Tehran regime decide to sprint toward building an atomic weapon.
"From the very beginning, we made it clear we had reservations about the goal of the negotiations," Steinitz told the newspaper's chief foreign affairs analyst, David Ignatius. "We thought the goal should be to get rid of the Iranian nuclear threat, not verify or inspect it."
The deal being discussed would leave Iran with the capability to develop an atomic device within a year while also enabling it to continue enriching uranium at high quantities, a prospect that Israel opposes.
Steinitz said that while he understood Washington's desire to reach an agreement that would keep Iran's nuclear program on stand-by for at least a decade - enough time for a new leadership to emerge - this approach presented serious challenges.
"You're saying, okay, in 10 or 12 years Iran might be a different country," Steinitz said. "[This is] dangerous" since it fails to take into account the fact that the regime is "thinking like an old-fashioned superpower."
"To believe that in the next decade there will be a democratic change in leadership and that Iran won't threaten the US or Israel anymore, I think this is too speculative," the minister told The Washington Post.
Steinitz said that Israel initially believed that the Iranians would only be permitted to enrich a symbolic amount of uranium, but when the Netanyahu administration got word that the agreement being discussed would leave Iran in possession of thousands of centrifuges, it decided to escalate its rhetoric against the negotiations.
With the West bogged down with other crises, the Iranians could take advantage and "sneak out" of the agreement by quickly developing a bomb, Steinitz said. With the verification mechanisms stipulated by the agreement, it would already be too late for the Americans to catch Iran in the act.
"Iran is part of the problem and not part of the solution," Steinitz said, before adding, "unless you think Iran dominating the Middle East is the solution."
Iranian military chief threatens to 'wipe Tel Aviv off the map' - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iranian-military-chief-threatens-to-wipe-Tel-Aviv-off-the-map-392359
A senior Iranian official on Thursday threatened to "wipe Tel Aviv and Haifa off the map" in the event of an Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear installations.
General Mustafa Yazdi, the assistant chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, warned that "Iran will flatten Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel perpetrates an attack on our country."
The Lebanese television station Al Mayadeen, which is affiliated with the Shi'ite Hezbollah movement, aired footage of the general's remarks, which came on the heels of "the threats made by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman."
This is not the first time that senior Iranian officials have threatened to "erase Tel Aviv." Earlier this week, Mujtaba A-Nur, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said that Iran "will erase Tel Aviv in 10 minutes if Israel dares attack Iran."
"If the Zionist regime attacks us, our missiles will reach Tel Aviv within six, seven minutes, and they will destroy it before the dust and the smoke of their missiles reach us," he said.
In message to US, Iran test fires new weapon in naval drill - Nasser Karimi - http://news.yahoo.com/iran-test-fires-weapon-naval-drill-081711993.html
With an eye on U.S.-led nuclear talks, Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Friday announced it had test fired a "new strategic weapon" in the final day of a large-scale naval and air defense drill, saying the system would play a key role in any future battle against the "Great Satan."
The claim was a new show of force by Iran just weeks ahead of a deadline for reaching a deal over its nuclear program with the U.S. and other global powers.
Iran announced the test on the final day of military drills it is calling "Great Prophet 9." The exercises are being held near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which about a fifth of the world's oil passes.
Iran often holds live-fire war games and frequently boasts of advances in its weaponry that cannot be independently verified. The latest drill, which included a simulated attack on an American aircraft carrier, appeared to be aimed at sending a message that Iran has no intention of backing down to the U.S. in the nuclear talks.
Adm. Ali Fadavi, the Revolutionary Guard's naval chief, said the new weapon would be critical in any future naval war against the U.S.
"The new weapon will have a very decisive role in adding our naval power in confronting threats, particular by the Great Satan, the United States," he told the guard's website, sepahanews.com.
Fadavi told state TV that details of weapon will possibly be made public in coming years. "We have restrictions to expressing specifications and applications of the weapon," he said in a short interview recorded at night.
He did not elaborate, though state TV showed a brief video of missiles being launched into the sky from under the water during the daytime. Iran is known to have an advanced arsenal of missiles capable of striking as far away as Israel and U.S. military bases in the region.
Also on Friday, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported that the country has begun a regular two-day exercise on radiation emergency preparedness and response in the country's only nuclear power plant. The plant went online in 2011 with the help of Russia in southern port of Bushehr.
Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, who heads a unit in charge of civil defense, was quoted as saying the exercise has aimed at "controlling supposed pollution" in the plant.
It said the drill was limited to preparations at the plant's headquarters, and a second stage would be held Saturday. The Iranian Foreign Ministry informed neighboring countries about the exercise, it added.
The U.S. and world powers are in the final stages of talks that they hope will reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program. The international community suspect Iran is trying to develop a nuclear-weapons capability. Iran denies the charges, saying its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. The two sides hope to reach a framework agreement in the coming weeks and a final deal in June.
Since 1992, Iran has sought to become self-sufficient in its military needs, producing mortars, tanks, torpedoes, jet fighters and light submarines.
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