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Iran's elite force 'beating sanctions'
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who accurately disclosed important details about Iran's nuclear program in 2002, called for tighter UN curbs and swift US action to rein in the elite corps.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:15 August 23, 2007
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Washington: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards are using front groups to beat UN sanctions and acquire weapons and material for Tehran's nuclear program, an exiled opponent of the Iranian government said on Wednesday.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who accurately disclosed important details about Iran's nuclear program in 2002, called for tighter UN curbs and swift US action to rein in the elite corps.
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been, consistently over the past few months, violating the United Nations resolutions 1737 and 1747, using different ways to evade the sanctions and import goods and material," Jafarzadeh said at a news conference in Washington.
Those two sets of sanctions were slapped on Iran for rejecting any halt to uranium enrichment, a process the United States and other Western countries suspect Tehran is using to develop atomic bombs.
Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful and on Tuesday struck a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency on how to defuse Western suspicions about its nuclear ambitions.
Jafarzadeh, who provided names and details of 15 firms he said were operating as fronts for the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliates, said the UN sanctions did not cover all of the firms that were abetting Iran's nuclear drive.
The list identified Tose'eh Silo Co. and Sazeh Pardaz Co. of Iran as primary builders of Iran's Natanz nuclear site.
Jafarzadeh said his information came from Iran-based members of the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran, which seeks to topple Iran's government and is on the US list of extremist organizations.
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