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November 14, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061114-013442-9781r

Report: Iran Has Secret Nuclear Fund

[UPI] Iran has a secret $418 million slush fund for expansion of its nuclear operations, the German magazine Der Spiegel reports. The information came from telephone calls made by a top Iranian official on a line tapped by a Western intelligence service. The money is to be used to safeguard Iran's nuclear sites from attack by moving nuclear operations into tunnels, to build additional centrifuges, and to construct a new nuclear plant at a secret location. Farhad Rahbar, vice-president and head of the planning and budget organization and a director of the Control Center for Nuclear Issues, reportedly wrote a clause authorizing the secret fund into the budget, allowing him to increase military spending by 30%.

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