WORLD / Middle East
Iran says it has arrested a nuclear spy
(AP)
Updated: 2007-01-10 10:06
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Tuesday it has arrested a man on suspicion of
selling nuclear secrets to an exiled Iranian opposition group, state
radio reported.
The report didn't identify the suspected spy, but said he had been
working at the Iranian Parliament's Research Center, an organization that
advises lawmakers on foreign and strategic issues.
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"The man transferred classified information, including a bulletin on
nuclear activities, to the hypocrites," state radio said, referring to
the People's Mujahedeen of Iran.
The Paris-based group, regarded as a terrorist organization by the United
States, has frequently made accusations about Iran's nuclear activities,
reporting on what it says is secret information received from insiders in
Iran.
In 2002, the group disclosed the existence of two previously secret
nuclear facilities, a pilot uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a
research reactor being built in the city of Arak, which turned out to
house Iran's uranium enrichment program and a hard-water reactor project.
Other claims by the group have not been substantiated.
Iran said in 2004 that it had arrested 10 military officers, nuclear
workers and others on charges of revealing its nuclear secrets to Israeli
and US intelligence agencies.
But the government said the information passed to the United States and
Israel was "without value."
Ahmed Tavakoli, a leading lawmaker, confirmed state radio's report of the
arrest of the alleged spy.
"This person has been working in Parliament's Research Center since
2001," Tavakoli told the semiofficial Fars news agency Tuesday. "He was
arrested by the Intelligence Ministry."
Tavakoli told Fars that the arrested man will stand trial but gave no
date.
The People's Mujahedeen participated in the 1979 ouster of the former
shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. But it fell out with the clerical
government and launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings.
For years it fought Iran's Islamic rulers from Iraq with the backing of
Saddam Hussein's regime.
During the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US military briefly bombed
People's Mujahedeen camps until the group capitulated and agreed to
disarm.
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