November 22-2013
The Mojahedin-e Khalq’s National Council of Resistance says it has information Iran has built a secret nuclear site inside a mountain 10 kilometers (six miles) from Mobarekeh in central Iran.
But it announced at a news conference in Paris that it did not know what kind of work was being down at the new site.
The group called press conferences in July and October to announce other secret nuclear sites. But no country has endorsed those claims.
The group alleges that Iran is building a series of secret sites to match the installations it has announced publicly and enable it to enrich uranium out of the sight of inspectors. It has long been a fear in the West that Iran would try to do just that. The evidence of that is the Natanz and Fordo enrichment sites, both of which Iran tried to hide from the world but which were exposed. No other secret sites have been exposed, however.
The group said the new site was adjacent to the Esfahan-Shiraz highway and on the grounds of the Haft-e Tir military industrial complex.
In both the cases of Natanz and Fordo, Iran acknowledged the sites after they were exposed. But in the latest case, Iran has denied the allegation.
In 2009, Iran announced that it planned to build 10 sites for uranium enrichment. Iran has not announced the start of construction of any of those, however.