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Sep 20, 2024
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Jaber Rajabi, Former Advisor To Iran's President: Iran Is Working On Nuclear Weapons, But Afraid To Conduct Nuclear Test On Its Soil, Is Considering Doing So In Africa; Some IRGC Officials Have Doubts About The Regime And Its Nuclear Program

#11480 | 03:32
Source: Al-Arabiya Network (Dubai/Saudi Arabia)

Jaber Rajabi, former advisor to Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who played a key role in establishing the Iraqi pro-Iran Shiite militias, and who has since defected, discussed the Israeli intelligence infiltration in Iran and sabotage in nuclear facilities in a September 20, 2024 interview with Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia). He said that there are many doubts about the regime among the second and third generation of the IRGC. Rajabi continued to say that the Israeli intelligence infiltration into Iran is not only about money, but rather people are performing acts of sabotage against the nuclear program due to their own patriotic convictions. He explained that many Iranians oppose the nuclear program because they fear a nuclear arms race in which Iran’s neighbors would be handed nuclear weapons by international powers, and because they fear an Iraq-like invasion from international powers in order to root out its nuclear program.

Jaber Rajabi: "Among the second and third generations of the IRGC, there are many doubts about the regime. The Israeli [intelligence] infiltration is not only about money. It is not that the Israelis come, pay money, and recruit people. There are many disagreements in the IRGC.

"For example, some of the people in the IRGC, even if only in a political capacity, are opposed to the nuclear project, or the Iranian intervention in the region…"

Interviewer: "So they are connected to the sabotage operations that have taken place?"

Rajabi: "Yes."

Interviewer: "Not all of them are Mossad?"

Rajabi: "No. That’s impossible. I mean that not all of them are collaborating with the Mossad."

Interviewer: "Some of them sabotage because they do not want the nuclear program. They do it out of internal patriotic reasons."

Rajabi: "Yes, yes."

Interviewer: "Why? Do they believe that the nuclear program will cause them problems?"

Rajabi: "I know one of them. After I left Iran, he came forward. He said something really important, that we are afraid of a nuclear competition."

Interviewer: "You mean a nuclear arms race?"

Rajabi: "Right. First of all, any person with even a minor role in the political-military system in Iran knows that Iran is trying to obtain nuclear weapons. This is well-established. It is no secret. That man said to me that even if Iran only tests a nuclear weapon, countries in the region from the other side have money, and they have allies among the superpowers, who will give them [nuclear] weapons.

"Instead of working on it for 40 years, like us, they will give it to them and we will lose. Another option is that the world would reach a conclusion that Iran poses a danger to everybody, and they will do (to Iran) what they did to Iraq, and we will end up losing also.

[…]

"The Iranians have placed the parts of the nuclear weapons in different locations, for fear that they would be targeted. They saw what happened in Iraq. So if they have a certain component of a nuclear weapon—they make 15 units and place them in different locations.

[…]

"However, Iran is afraid to conduct a nuclear test. It is trying to find a way to test the nuclear weapons outside Iran’s borders. They have talked with several countries. I have even received reliable information that several Iranian nuclear experts traveled to African countries to inspect places, in keeping with their new African relations, in order to conduct nuclear tests there."

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