Iran's secret lab
Laptop Battery Monday, 6th February 2006
New York Post
By NILES LATHEM Post Correspondent
February 6, 2006 -- DISSIDENT GROUP IDS NUCLEAR SITE
WASHINGTON - This ordinary-looking industrial complex in a suburb northeast of Tehran is at the center of the global nuclear showdown with Iran.
It is called the Modern Defensive Readiness and Technology Center - or Lavisan II - and sits on 60 acres, with three entrances protected by members of the Revolutionary Guards, the shock troops of the ayatollahs.
A well-placed Iranian opposition group charges that for the past 15 months, Lavisan II has been a major center of Iran's nuclear program. The group says as many as 11 projects related to weapons research are under way there.
For the past 15 months, the plant has also been central to Iran's high-stakes shell game with the United Nations.
"We believe this is one of the key centers of suspicious and illegal activity," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian expert connected to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which has delivered revelations about Iran's nuclear program. "And we believe this is an important example of how the regime [of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] has succeeded in cheating, evading and denying access while it continues with its nuclear program."
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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