Exiled Opposition: Iran Hiding Nuclear Site from UN

[Khephra]

Exiled Opposition: Iran Hiding Nuclear Site from UN
Mon October 13, 2003 08:59 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition group that has provided accurate information about undeclared nuclear facilities in Iran in the past said Monday that Tehran has been hiding another nuclear facility from U.N. inspectors.

"We have information about another secret nuclear facility in Iran," an official from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled opposition group, told Reuters. The official gave no details about the site, but said NCRI officials would provide full details Tuesday.

more.............


http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3603007

[La_Serpiente]

1. What can we do? The US has lost all of its credibility already.

Plus, exiles sometimes have a immoral vested interest in their country. Look at the Cubans from Miami. Cuba is not as bad as they say, but they continue to hurt their people at home.

[hang a left]

8. yeah look at Chalabi

[saigon68]

16. INVADE NOW I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT

Chalabi

[Say_What]

13. A perfect example is Repuke Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

The night that Mikhail Gorbachev addressed a group of anti-embargo participants in Coral Gables, the Repuke Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with a handful of *exile* demonstrators outside the Cuba Summit, drug out the old "Cuba has bioweapons" lie, which we've heard ad nauseum for years now. The next day a number of editorials ran to oppose what she spewed. The Sun Sentinel's editorial wrote that she should "put up or shut up".

[ze_dscherman]

2. Israel spoke of three new sites

Seems someone slowly turns up the heat.

[joeybee12]

3. Didn't the Iraqi opposition say the same thing?

I'd worry except that Dumbo and his evil henchmen have so totally destroyed the military that we ain't invading anyplace else anytime soon.

[Paschall]

4. Full details on Tuesday...

As Wimpie said to Popeye... Oh, no, that was burgers.

[ewagner]

5. Take it with a grain of salt

Somebody needs to confirm this through a second source before it becomes the "panic de jour".

[Minstrel Boy]

6. Great! We all know how accurate

intelligence from exiled opposition groups can be.

[mac56]

7. Good point, Minstrel Boy.

Let's keep our powder dry for now.

[hang a left]

9. This story has been, in one form or another, floating around for two days

now. I think Israel is taking the planets temperature.

[mike_c]

10. gee, where have we heard this before....

Seems to me I vaguely recall something similar in regard to some other middle eastern country.... Drat! Which one was it...? The one where the people met us with parades and flowers, I think....

[htuttle]

11. Fool me once!

The Bush admin has ZERO credibility, both at home and abroad. When a convenient 'Iranian exile group' comes forward with the same pack of lies as Chalabi's 'Iraqi exile group' had been spewing, how could ANYONE not believe that:
a) The Bush admin put them up to it.
and
b) They are lying.

Apparently, they STILL think we're stupid.

[Flying_Pig]

12. Unfortunately, much of the country IS still "stupid". If they weren't

they'd be "storming the Bastille", demanding Bush's head on a platter.

[Say_What]

14. How right you are...

just called the US sheeple CENSORED!!

<clips>

The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003
#1: The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance
#2: Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty
#3: US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq U.N. Report
#4: Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists
#5: The Effort to Make Unions Disappear
#6: Closing Access to Information Technology
#7: Treaty Busting by the United States
#8: US/British Forces Continue Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects
#9: In Afghanistan: Poverty, Women's Rights, and Civil Disruption Worse than Ever

http://www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2004/index.html

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[saigon68]

17. HEAD ON A PIKE

That would be a sight

[Zhade]

15. The NCRI is a designated terrorist organization.

According to the State Department:

Designation of National Council of Resistance
And National Council of Resistance of Iran
Under Executive Order 13224

The Secretary of State has amended the designation, under Executive Order 13224 on terrorist financing, of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the MEK, to add its aliases National Council of Resistance (NCR) and National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). That Executive Order blocks the assets of organizations and individuals linked to terrorism. The decision also clarifies that the designation includes the U.S. representative office of NCRI and all its other offices worldwide, and that the designation of the People's Mujahedin of Iran ("PMOI") as an alias of the MEK includes the PMOI's U.S. representative office and all other offices worldwide.

The Secretary of State designated the MEK as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and again in 2001 pursuant to section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. That order (as amended) authorizes the Secretary to designate foreign entities and individuals that he determines - in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security - to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.

The action to amend the Executive Order 13224 designation of the MEK to include NCR and NCRI is based on information from a variety of sources that those entities functioned as part of the MEK and have supported the MEK's acts of terrorism.

[xxqqqzme]

18. guess the next invasion

is still up in the air. One week it is Syria, the next - its Iran. they need to sharpen their focus.

[morebunk]

19. And when you find out who these dissidents are...Israel will be behind it

Most of our bogus intelligence has come from Israel...if not we would have been told just to get the heat off of the administration.