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Deputy Director @ncrius; Author of The Iran Threat (Palgrave Macmillan; New York); president, Strategic Policy Consulting #IranProtests #FreeIran #Iran

Jun 7, 2022, 19 tweets

IAEA DG Rafael Grossi said #Iran’s regime had failed to reduce concerns about violations of its nonproliferation safeguards agreement, will eventually cross the uranium enrichment threshold. #IAEA’s Board of Governors is to decide on decades of denial, deception & duplicity.

The IAEA report is perhaps the most damning since its Nov 2011 report, which highlights clear activities related to the Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of Iran's nuclear program, i.e., uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at three undeclared locations in Iran. 2/

These 3 locations are, Turquzabad (2019), Varamin (2020) and ‘Marivan’ (2020). Despite "numerous opportunities, in different formats," IAEA report states, "Iran has not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the Agency’s findings at those locations."3/

IAEA Conclusion: "Unless & until Iran provides technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles" and "informs the Agency of the current location(s) of the nuclear material and/or of the contaminated equipment," the safeguards issues "remain outstanding."4/

This nuclear deception has been going on for decades. #Iran regime was caught in the act when the #NCRI exposed its clandestine nuclear weapon’s program on August 14, 2002, revealing the sites in Natanz and Arak, in a press conference in Washington DC. 5/ c-span.org/video/?172005-…

In Sept 2004: NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin revealed information on a secret high-level meeting, where Khamenei appointed Hassan Rouhani with the task of deceiving the international community, preventing disclosures until they achieve the bomb.6/

In his book ‘National Security & Nuclear Diplomacy,’ Hassan Rouhani wrote: “Iran planned a ‘fait accompli,’ and run 54,000 centrifuges by 2003 & produce 30 tons of 3.5% fuel annually, but the #MEK launched a press conference and exposed the sites of Natanz and Arak.” 7/

In June 2015, NCRI-US published, Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Duplicity, An Analysis of Tehran’s Trickery in Talks with the P5+1, detailing how the regime used Rouhani & his team to deceive the nuclear negotiators while advancing the nuclear weapons program.ncrius.org/publications/b… 8/

In Dec 2015: NCRI revealed that a top-secret committee of #IRGC officials from the Ministry of Defense were tasked with drafting the responses to #IAEA’s PMD inquiries to cover up the military dimensions of the nuclear program. ncrius.org/publications/b… 9/

In an interview with the state-run TV, Jan 2019, Ali Akbar Salehi, former head of the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization acknowledged that they had lied about the Arak site during negotiations and had hidden prohibited equipment, upon Khamenei’s order.10/

November 27, 2021, Fereydoun Abbasi, former head of #Iran regime’s Atomic Energy Organization, confessed in an interview, that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated former head of the regime’s nuclear weapons project, had created a system to produce a nuclear bomb. #IAEA 11/

Former deputy parliament speaker Ali Mottahari, confirmed in an April 24, 2022 interview that the regime was actually trying to make the nuclear bomb. “Our goal was to build the Bomb & enhance dissuasive power. But #MEK revealed the secret reports.” 12/ dw.com/fa-ir/a-615808…

#IAEA resolution by the Board of Governors is expected now. Yet, stopping the regime’s nuclear weapons & decades of deceptions requires reimposition of the 6 UNSC resolutions, ending Tehran's’s nuclear sites and enrichment capabilities & anytime,anywhere inspections.#FreeIran 13/

BREAKING NEWS: The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors overwhelmingly passed a resolution which "expresses profound concern" about #Iran's regime for failing to explain uranium traces found at 3 undeclared sites, & called on the regime to act "without delay." 14/

This overwhelmingly passed resolution is significant for three reasons: 1) It is the first since June 2020; 2) Happens after over a year of fruitless negotiations to revive the #JCPOA; 3) Passed after Tehran disconnected some #IAEA monitoring cameras, threatened to do worse. 15/

Yet, as @Maryam_Rajavi said, "Tehran's nuclear dossier should be referred to the UN Security Council ASAP & six UNSC resolutions should be reinstated NOW. Postponing the issue to the next meeting of the #IAEA BoG provides further opportunity to the regime to produce the Bomb."16/

.@Maryam_Rajavi added, "The regime's nuclear & enrichment sites must be shut down & unconditional inspections carried out...The ruling mullahs in Iran have never abandoned the program of acquiring a nuclear weapon as a guarantor of the survival of the Velayat-e-Faqih regime." 17/

This regime spends resources of #Iran's people to preserve its rule. The cost of the regime's nuclear weapons project & secret facilities--first exposed by the Iranian Resistance--is about $ 2 trillion, a key cause of the terrible poverty of the Iranian people. #FreeIran 18/

#Iran's regime informed the IAEA about the removal of 27 monitoring cameras, according to DG Rafael Grossi. "Fatal blow" to the JCPOA if the regime doesn't restore access within 3-4 weeks, he says. Another indication that Tehran never abandoned its nuclear Bomb project. 19/

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