NTI: Country Overviews: Iran: Nuclear Facilities

Nuclear Facilities

Moallem Kaleyah

Other Names: Mo'allem Kalayeh, Moa'alem Kelayeh, Ghaziv
Location: Elbruz mountains northwest of Tehran
Subordinate to: AEOI
Size: Nuclear weapon production
Primary Function: Suspected Nuclear Weaponization Research

Description:

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reportedly operates a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant at Moallem Kaleyah. In 1987, Iran acquired equipment from French, German, and Italian companies to construct and outfit the facility. Some sources report that the facility was for weaponization. Other sources state that Moallem Kaleyah may be used for laser enrichment. In 1992, IAEA inspectors visited the site and found only a small training center under construction. Some believe that the inspectors were taken to the wrong location, away from the real site.

Key Sources:
[1] "Iran's Nuclear Ambitions," Jane's Intelligence Review: Special Report, No. 6, p. 13.
[2] Michael Eisenstadt, "Déjà vu all over again? Iran's military build-up," prepared for a conference on Iran's Strategic Intentions (Institute for National Strategic Studies, 22 February 1994), p. 8.
[3] "Rafsanjani's Bomb," Mednews.


	Updated January 2006

	Overview
	Conversion
	Enrichment
	Fuel Fabrication
	Heavy Water Production
	Milling
	Mining
	Nuclear Power Reactors
	Reprocessing
	Research and Development
	Research Reactors, Critical and Sub-Critical Assemblies
	Waste Management
	Weaponization

	Maps
	U.S. and Hostile Powers: Iran
	IAEA Board Welcomes EU-Iran Agreement: Is Iran Providing Assurances or Merely Providing Amusement?
	IAEA Board Deplores Iran's Failue to Come into Full Compliance: Is Patience with Iran Running Out?
	Iran and the IAEA: A Troubling Past with a Hopeful Future?
	The Second NPT PrepCom for the 2005 Review Conference
	WMD in the Middle East
	Treaties and Organizations
	Iranian Regime Defiant in Face of Aug. 31 Nuclear Deadline (2006)
	Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments (2006)
	In Focus: IAEA and Iran (2005)
	Iran's Game of Nuclear Poker: Knowing When to Fold (2005)
	FAS: Iran Special Weapons Guide (2005)
	For Tehran, Nuclear Program Is a Matter of National Pride (2005)
	Curbing the Iranian Nuclear Threat: The Military Option (2004)
	Iran: Countdown to Showdown (2004)
	Shahab-3 (2004)
	A Preemptive Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities: Possible Consequences (2004)
	The Role of WMD in Iranian Security Calculations (2004)
	Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions (2003)
	Iran, Player or Rogue? (2003)
	Iranian Missiles: The Nature of the Threat (2003)
	Iran and Nuclear Weapons (2000)
	Iran's Nuclear Facilities: A Profile (1998)
	Iran and CBW (1998)


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This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2003 by MIIS.

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