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The officials, who asked not to be identified
Iranian officials withheld from international atomic energy inspectors the original design documents for a secret nuclear reactor suspected of being part of Tehran's plan to build an atomic bomb, a US embassy cable reveals.
The secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was denied the blueprints when in October 2009 its inspection team visited the part-built facility in a mountainside at Fordow near Qom. It was instead provided with designs that showed only what was already built.
Providing a picture of Iranian obstruction to the visit, Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA's deputy director general who led the inspection, revealed that Iranian officials were "steered by unseen observers who send notes to the Iranian interlocutors during meetings" and insisted on tape recording the meetings but refused to allow the IAEA to do the same.
According to the secret cable back to Washington the inspectors were "not impressed" by the Iranians' continued refusal to elaborate on their denials of evidence pointing to the nuclear programme's military intent.
The IAEA believed there was "a high-level decision not to co-operate" with the inspection, Nackaerts said, and Iran's denials had left the agency at "an absolute stalemate" with Tehran over the military application of its nuclear programme.
Originally posted by Eliad
reply to post by oozyism
Would you have still been so skeptic had these leaks been anti Israeli instead of anti Irani?
Because they don't have to.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by oozyism
Then why haven't they denied it?
I'll give you a possible clue. I bet they are letting it run in the western press first to see which way global opinion rides. Then if it is favorable they will chime in if it is not then they'll officially deny it.
edit on 30-11-2010 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Eliad
reply to post by oozyism
Would you have still been so skeptic had these leaks been anti Israeli instead of anti Irani?
If any anti Israeli leaks suddenly surface, would you still feel the leaks are unreliable?
Originally posted by Crakeur
reply to post by BiGGz
my guess is that Saudi Arabia sees Iran as more of a threat,as do the other nations. Israel will sit still in their little strip of sand while Iran's posturing and combative approach is likely to create military action and a nuclear Iran could very well result in the region being obliterated.
Israel has yet to threaten to wipe anyone off the map and, even when they have done precision strikes, that's all they did . move in, destroy a target, move out. Iran is more likely to seek mass destruction.
Originally posted by oozyism
Yes.
Israel has nothing to do with this.