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Iran puts radicals in charge of nuclear programme
By Philip Sherwell in Washington
(Filed: 09/10/2005)

Iran's new hardline president has placed his country's nuclear programme
under the control of militant commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, the
military's most committed wing.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has launched a purge of moderates in national and
provincial government since his election two months ago, has drafted in
fellow radical revolutionaries to top administrative posts - a move that
will heighten Western fears over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

     
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Many of the new power-brokers are veterans of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds
(Jerusalem) Force, in which Mr Ahmadinejad held the rank of brigadier
general. The unit is linked to a series of international terrorist attacks
and the main backer of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), a leading opposition
group that has previously exposed clandestine nuclear sites, gave details of
the appointment of high-ranking Quds Force officers to senior positions to
The Sunday Telegraph. Other Iranian exiles with contacts inside the country
are also tracking the purges.

Most significantly, the country's nuclear programme, which Iran claims is
for civilian purposes, is in the hands of hardliners who, like Mr
Ahmadinejad, were young radicals at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

American and British intelligence are certain that Teheran is trying to
develop atomic weapons. "This is not like the pre-war debate about whether
Iraq was working on weapons of mass destruction," an American intelligence
official said. "Iran has a nuclear weapons programme. There are no doubts."

The disclosures come days after Tony Blair said that explosives used by
insurgents to kill British soldiers in Iraq "lead us either to Iranian
elements or to Hezbollah", effectively ending a long-running diplomatic
effort to woo Irani=
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