Is There Really Another Secret Iranian Uranium-Enrichment Facility?

Nuclear-proliferation experts are expressing deep skepticism regarding a controversial Iranian exile group’s claims that Iran is building a new secret underground uranium-enrichment site not far from Tehran. Two Iranian-opposition spokespeople announced at a press conference in Washington last week that the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, a.k.a. the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), had obtained “exclusive details  on a major top-secret and strategic nuclear-enrichment site" near the city of Qazvin, about 70 miles west of the Iranian capital. "The site is built deep inside mountains to withstand aerial bombings and confirms that the regime is in hot pursuit of nuclear weapons and will in no way abandon it," said the two Iranian exiles, identifying themselves as Soona Samsami and Alireza Jafarzadeh. The pair argued that their revelations make “imperative” not only tougher, "comprehensive" Western sanctions against Iran but also the removal of U.S. government restrictions on the PMOI/MEK, an Iranian exile movement listed by the U.S. State Department as a "foreign terrorist organization."
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