Mojahedeen-e Khalq: Iran Accelerating Development Of Nuclear Warheads, With Help From N. Korea

The Iranian opposition organization Mojahedeen-e Khalq has told a press conference that in the past two years Iran has accelerated its development of nuclear warheads and of attaching them to ballistic missiles, with help from North Korean experts.

Mojahedeen-e Khalq released details of straw companies through which the Iranian regime is importing components for the warheads, far from the eyes of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The organization also reported that at the Mojdeh facility, northeast of Tehran, nuclear warheads were being developed for Shahab-3 and Qadr missiles, and in the Khojair region, southwest of Tehran, tunnels have been dug and a facility is producing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

Iran has denied that there was any military cooperation between it and North Korea.

Source: IRNA, Iran, September 24, 2008; mojahedin.org, September 23, 2008

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