[caption id="attachment_95410" align="alignright" width="211"] Logo of anti-Iran terrorist Moujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)[/caption]

TEHRAN (FNA)- The anti-Iran terrorist Moujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI) is seeking to inveigle credulous US officials and journalists into seeing a bomb factory beneath every building in Tehran, in an attempt to hold Iran's nuclear talks at bay, an American analyst said.

In an article published by Foreign Policy on March 3, Jeffrey Lewis said, "The Mojahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), revealed the location of what it claimed was an underground centrifuge facility in the suburbs of Tehran. The announcement was, evidently, intended to derail ongoing negotiations toward a diplomatic settlement over Tehran�s nuclear programs."


"This is not the first time that NCRI has organized a press conference with startling revelations about Iran�s nuclear program. The one everyone remembers was in 2002, when the (terrorist) group made the first public reference to the underground enrichment facility at Natanz. Reporting by folks like Mark Hibbs, however, suggests the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) already knew about the existence of the site. An intelligence agency simply may have laundered the information through NCRI. The group has more often gotten the story all wrong. For example, NCRI calls the new site Lavizan-3. For some reason, they don�t talk about Lavizan-2, which was a site they 'revealed' in 2008, shortly after the United States released a National Intelligence Estimate stating that Iran had 'halted' or paused its nuclear weapons program, in what was totally-not-a-coincidence," he added.


Lewis said that there is every reason to think the latest allegations by NCRI represent a politically motivated effort to derail the engagement of Iran over its nuclear program.


He continued, "Almost immediately, there were reasons to doubt NCRI�s claim. A review of commercial satellite images reveals no evidence of large-scale excavation or tunneling during the 2004-2008 period identified by NCRI. The site seems to lack a suitable transformer substation for electricity to power centrifuges or evidence of ventilation systems so workers underneath can breathe. (It turns out workers tend to insist on breathing.) And if Iran had excavated a massive 2,000-square-meter underground facility, where�d all the dirt go? It just doesn�t add up."


"Moreover, the press release contained a number of details that were obviously fabricated. NCRI claimed that the facility had �3 by 3 m radiation proof doors that are 40 centimeters thick and weigh about 8 tons � to prevent radiation leak.� There is no reason for such doors at a uranium-enrichment facility, which is not subject to massive radiation leaks. Almost immediately, others were able to determine that the picture of the door released by NCRI was actually lifted from an Iranian commercial website. That detail is just balderdash, despite NCRI�s lame defense that the firm supplies doors to the Iranian nuclear industry," he added.


Jeffrey Lewis concluded, "The site that NCRI identified is, in fact, a facility operated by a firm called Matiran. NCRI described Matiran as a firm that produces identification documents, like passports, for the Iranian government. Helpfully, that�s how Matiran describes itself, as well. You may not have heard of it before � I had not � but its representatives attend international conferences and its employees post their CVs on social networking sites. The construction of the new facility roughly corresponds with Matiran�s successful bid to produce the new Iranian national identification card."


The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.


The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.


The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.


Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of Iran�s 1979 Islamic Revolution, 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.


By Fars News Agency