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On August 14, 2002, at a press conference in Washington, DC, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled Iranian opposition group, drew worldwide attention when it publicly accused Iran of clandestinely developing nuclear weapons. Alireza Jafarzadeh, then-U.S. media spokesperson for the NCRI, described two “top secret” nuclear facilities being constructed in Iran at Natanz and Arak under the guise of front companies involved in the procurement of nuclear material and equipment. Noting that media attention had focused on Iran’s publicly declared civilian facilities, Jafarzadeh claimed that “in reality, there are many secret nuclear programs at work in Iran without knowledge of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” the international body responsible for verifying and assuring compliance with safeguards obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
12-2012
Publisher
National Defense University Press
City
Washington, DC
Recommended Citation
Gerami, Nima and Goldschmidt, Pierre, "The International Atomic Energy Agency's Decision to Find Iran in Non-Compliance, 2002-2006" (2012). WMD Case Studies. 2.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/wmd-case-studies/2