Iranian Dissident: Another Secret Nuclear Site Uncovered

Iran is enriching weapons-grade uranium in a secret underground facility outside of Tehran that has remained hidden for a decade from U.N. weapons inspectors and U.S. negotiators seeking to prevent Iran from acquiring the bomb, says an Iranian exile group with a proven track record of uncovering the regime's repeated nuclear violations.

If weapons inspectors are not given immediate access to the site, called Lavizan-3, the countries negotiating with Iran today should walk away from the table, Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the U.S. Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran, told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Tuesday.

We need for the IAEA to inspect this site," said Jafarzadeh, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose investigators have verified previous revelations from the National Council of Resistance of Iran, including a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and a heavy water nuclear facility in Arak, both uncovered in 2002.

Constructed, beginning in 2004, beneath an ID card factory owned by Iran's intelligence service, the Lavizan-3 center is comprised of four underground "hallways" measuring 10 by 40 meters that are accessed by elevators and then a tunnel.

"And and in those hallways, deep underground about 50 meters down, Tehran has been doing research, development and uranium enrichment using highly advanced centrifuge machines, including IR-2m, IR-3 and IR-4," said Jafarzadeh.

"These are the machines that are much faster than what the regime already has," he said.

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