The underground enrichment facility of Fordow in the religious city of Qom has become a point of contention in Tehran. Alaeddin Borujerdi, the head of the parliament’s influential National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, and Ali Akbar Velayati, the foreign policy adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have both criticized the US position in the nuclear talks over the highly sensitive issue.
In an interview posted on the supreme leader’s website May 17, when Velayati was asked for examples of “repeated breaches of pledges by the Americans,” he said, “For example, about Fordow, after our negotiation team made many efforts, they accepted an agreement. But after, the next time they came to the negotiating table, they said something else, which was different from their previous comments — meaning they were not even bound to their own comments. A more interesting point is that the Americans did not act on what they presented themselves in their own fact sheet about Fordow and the next time they sat down in negotiations, they said something opposed to their own fact sheet.”
