Tehran Denies Building New Enrichment Site

September 10 2010

Iran

Iran has denied claims by an opposition group that it is secretly building another uranium-enrichment site.

On Thursday, a dissident Iranian group charged that an underground military nuclear installation is being set up in the mountains west of Tehran, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) said at a Thursday news conference that the Javad-nia 2 site is a nearly completed uranium-enrichment facility.

A U.S. official said that the site was not nuclear and...

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