{"id":20261,"date":"2024-06-27T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/new-report-claims-iran-regime-using-university-to-hide-nuclear-weapons-development-avoid-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:48:16","slug":"new-report-claims-iran-regime-using-university-to-hide-nuclear-weapons-development-avoid-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/new-report-claims-iran-regime-using-university-to-hide-nuclear-weapons-development-avoid-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"New report claims Iran regime using university to hide nuclear weapons development, avoid sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

A new report from an Iranian resistance group alleges that the Islamist regime has attempted to dodge U.S. sanctions on its nuclear programs by shifting personnel and resources to a university closely associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n

\u2018Ever since The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed the Iranian regime\u2019s previously undisclosed nuclear program in 2002 \u2026 the regime has persistently thwarted the IAEA\u2019s efforts to uncover the full scope of its nuclear weapons ambitions,\u2019 Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the Washington office of the NCRI told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our revelations have shown that Tehran\u2019s nuclear program has always been about building the nuclear bomb, and it is run by the IRGC,\u2019 he argued. \u2018The weaponization part of the nuclear program has not only remained intact but has expanded and enhanced with no meaningful scrutiny.\u2019 Jafarzadeh first revealed the details of Iran\u2019s nuclear program in 2002.<\/p>\n

The NCRI issued a report in which it discussed how Iran shifted its nuclear program personnel and resources placed on U.S. sanctions to the Islamic Azad University. The U.S. listed the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) on the international sanctions list, and university personnel asked researchers to \u2018present their activities as being in service of front companies.\u2019<\/p>\n

The NCRI claimed to have gathered its information through a network of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization, known as the MEK, from inside Iran, including reports from inside \u2018the regime entities.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018In order to preserve SPND, the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) has attempted to create a new and better cover to continue its operations, ostensibly making it work on a series of advanced military cases in order to divert attention and lessen focus on its primary goal of making nuclear weapons,\u2019 the report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly before his sudden death, former Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi passed the SPND Act in April, ordering the Ministry of Defense to implement the plan within a month and make the SPND \u2018an independent legal entity with the nature of a public institution and has financial, transactional and administrative independence.\u2019<\/p>\n

The law also empowers the organization to act without needing to comply with the law of public accounting in Iran. According to the report, the Islamic Azad Universityystem is located throughout the country and is one of the largest systems of universities in the world, counting over 1 million students and over 50,000 academic staff. The university was founded with the blessing of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayotallah Ruhollah Khomenei<\/p>\n

\u2018Use of Islamic Azad University for nuclear research is consistent with the regime\u2019s previous actions,\u2019 the NCRI wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NCRI report ties several major figures at Islamic Azad University with the SPND, such as Mohammad Medhi Tehranchi, currently president of the university and formerly a professor of physics at Beheshti University with \u2018close connections with SPND.\u2019 Tehranchi was reportedly involved in the regime\u2019s nuclear warhead project and worked directly with Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who was seen as the father of the regime\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n

The group also identified Jamshid Sabbaghzadeh, head of the university\u2019s Science and Research Center, which is \u2018the largest university research center in Iran.\u2019 Previously, he worked on laser research and joined the Atomic Energy Organization and worked on nuclear enrichment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jafarzadeh lamented the \u2018Western powers\u2019 policy of \u2018appeasement,\u2019 arguing that Iran has faced little punishment for its actions to avoid sanctions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018In many ways, the Iranian regime leverages its nuclear program as a tool to blackmail the international community, demanding further concessions while simultaneously intensifying its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons,\u2019 Jafarzadeh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Tehran\u2019s strategy has prevented decisive action against other aspects of its malevolent behavior, such as egregious human rights violations, terrorism, and hostage-taking, and belligerent interference throughout the Middle East,\u2019 he added, insisting that at this stage the only way to create real change will come from within with regime change \u2018led by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. National Security Council did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by time of publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report from an Iranian resistance group alleges that the Islamist regime has attempted to dodge U.S. sanctions on its nuclear programs by shifting personnel and resources to a university closely associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). \u2018Ever since The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed the Iranian regime\u2019s previously <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}