Iran has continued to produce centrifuges, which are used in the uranium enrichment process, in contravention of a November 2004 agreement with the U.K., France and Germany to suspend all such activities, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said.
Iran this month removed United Nations seals on equipment used in uranium enrichment at its Isfahan plant, after rejecting an offer from the so-called EU-3 of technology and economic incentives in exchange for halting processing activity. Even during the supposed suspension, Iran had continued to make centrifuges, the NCRI said at a London press conference today.
``In several secret locations, including several sites around Tehran, the regime is working round-the-clock to build centrifuges,'' Hossein Abedini, a member of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee, told reporters. ``Thousands of these machines have already been built and are ready for use,'' in work that has been ``non-stop throughout the past few months.''
The NCRI has in the past revealed information about Iran's nuclear activities that has proven to be true. The group in August 2002 said that Iran was building secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak. Iran admitted the existence of those facilities during a visit to the Islamic Republic in February 2003 by officials from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency.
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