Work
Alireza Jafarzadeh has published columns and appeared on television interviews both on conservative as well as the liberal media. He seems to have bi-partisan respect for his work. Jafarzadeh has a regular column on the Huffington Post. He has also widely published on the FoxNews.com. On August 14, 2002, Jafarzadeh drew worldwide attention by revealing that Iran was running a secret nuclear facility in Natanz, and a dideuterium oxide facility in Arak. These revelations led to inspections of the sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). After their first inspection, IAEA, said in a report on Iran's nuclear activity that traces of uranium, greater than what is needed for a civilian power program, were found on Iranian nuclear equipment, although the IAEA claimed that the source of the uranium was likely from equipment imported to Iran from Pakistan. These revelations eventually led to United Nations Security Council's imposing sanctions on Iran on December 23, 2006, over its nuclear program.
On May 15, 2003, as then a spokesman for the NCRI, Jafarzadeh also alleged that Iran was running programs for biological and microbial weapons. On March 16, 2005, President Bush said Iran's hidden nuclear program had been discovered "because a dissident group pointed it out to the world." Later that day, White House aides acknowledged that the dissident group cited by the president was the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). On January 5, 2007, Jafarzadeh claimed that Iran's government had sharply increased its efforts to fan sectarian violence in Iraq, easily transferring money and arms across the Iraqi border. In his news conference, Jafarzadeh provided details of the Iranian forces, including the Quds Force, commanders, resources and plans for Iran sustaining a large-scale terror network in Iraq.
On September 9, 2010, Jafarzadeh made yet another significant revelation about a secret underground uranium enrichment facility under construction in Behjat-abad near Tehran where satellite imagery along with details of the program drew international attention.
In April 2011, in a press conference in Washington, Alireza Jafarzadeh revealed a new nuclear site, known as TABA, where Iran has been secretly building centrifuge parts. Tehran had to concede to the existence of this site two days later.
In April 2012, in an article in the Baltimore Sun, Jafarzadeh exposed further details about Iran forming a new organization under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp to concentrate all the activities of the nuclear program to accelerate its bomb making.
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