IAEA Inspectors Find Traces of Uranium at Tehran Site Described as ‘Secret Atomic Warehouse’ by Netanyahu – Report
Sputnik News, Sep 8 2019
IAEA inspectors have carried out an inspection of a warehouse mentioned by Netanyahu in his speech to the UNGA last September, finding traces of uranium which Iran has yet to account for, two diplomats who follow the agency’s work have told Reuters. Earlier, Israeli media accused the IAEA of seeking to avoid publicising information about Iran’s alleged nuclear materials stockpile at a ‘secret nuclear warehouse’ facility in the Iranian capital. Iranian officials and IAEA representatives have yet to comment on the story. According to the anonymous diplomats, the IAEA has formally asked Iran to explain the uranium traces, but Iranian officials have yet to do so. One of the diplomats clarified that the uranium traces were not of a weapons-grade quality, and not purified to ‘anywhere close’ to the levels required for a nuclear bomb. Reuters’ source said:
There are lots of possible explanations.
Earlier this summer, Israeli media reported, citing four ‘top Israeli sources’, that the IAEA had discovered the traces of radioactive materials at the Iran facility in June, but had held back on making its findings public. In a speech to the UNGA late last year, Netanyahu said Mossad had discovered a second secret atomic warehouse in addition to the one mentioned in his ‘Iran lied’ speech in early 2018. Iran dismissed Netanyahu’s assertions as “ridiculous” and said they were “not even worth talking about.” In his Iran-lied speech, which successfully lobbied the Trump administration to scrap its commitments to the Iran nuclear deal, Netanyahu mentioned Iran’s other alleged violations to commitments to the nucelar deal, citing some 55,000 pages of documents allegedly seized by Israeli commandos during a daring 2017 raid on an Iranian nuclear facility in Turquzabad, about 25 km outside Tehran. Tehran called those claims as “laughably absurd,” accusing Tel Aviv of “trying to see what outlandish claims they can get a Western audience to believe.”
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