IRAN ‘DIGS TUNNEL TO TEST NUKES’

IRAN has built a site in which to weaponise its nuclear programme, an opposition group claims.

The allegations place further pressure on European states – including Britain – to reconsider support of the failed nuclear deal.

Located in a military base, the site is said to be used for establishing the yield of nuclear detonations. The National Council of Resistance of Iran says construction began in 2012, three years before the US signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran to curb any weaponry ambitions.

In 2017, before the US abandoned the deal, the regime moved in geophysics experts to expand its underground testing capabilities.

Satellite photos show a tunnel. Key equipment, including seismometers and radar, is believed to have been imported.

Soona Samsami, of the Council, said: “Appeasement allowed the regime to accelerate its drive to acquire nuclear weapons.”