Man held for selling nuke secrets to opposition
Tehran: Iran said on Tuesday it has arrested a man on suspicion of selling Iran's nuclear secrets to an exiled Iranian opposition group, state radio reported.
"The man transferred classified information, including a bulletin on nuclear activities, to the hypocrites [the armed opposition group the People's Mujahedeen]," state radio said.
State radio did not identify the man but said he had been working at the Iranian Parliament's Research Centre, an advisory body to the parliament on foreign and strategic issues.
It did not say how the man obtained the information and it was not immediately clear whether an employee of the research centre would have access to sensitive information on Iran's nuclear programme.
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In 2002, it reported the existence of two secret nuclear facilities, at Natanz and Arak, which turned out to house Iran's uranium enrichment program and a hard-water reactor project. Other claims by the group have not been substantiated.
Top lawmaker Ahmad Tavakoli confirmed the state radio report.
"This person has been working in Parliament's Research Centre since 2001. He was arrested by the Intelligence Ministry," Tavakoli told the semiofficial Pars news agency yesterday. Tavakoli told Fars that the arrested man will stand trial but gave no date.
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