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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1107/p09s02-coop.htm
Noted Dissident: Iran Is Closer to a Nuclear Bomb Than We Think
[Christian Science Monitor] John Hughes - The head of the Iranian opposition group in exile that supplied early intelligence on Iran's clandestine nuclear program says President Ahmadinejad has engineered a clever disinformation campaign to convince foreign experts that Iran is 8-10 years away from developing a nuclear bomb. But in fact, she says, the regime is less than two years away from producing such a weapon, as part of its plan to "create an Iranian empire" in the Middle East. Maryam Rajavi, who heads the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told me that Ahmadinejad has purged between 40 and 50 senior military officers who are in disagreement with his plans. Rajavi praised the Bush administration for its recent branding of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity. The U.S. government's action against it, she says, is a "clear testament and an indispensable prelude to democratic change in Iran."