“The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that it has discovered uranium traces at an undeclared site in Iran…The agency detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency.”
Those who signed on to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran Deal) were naive at best. Why would anyone believe the jihadist state of Iran?
Two months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “Iran had been developing nuclear weapons at a secret site near the city of Abadeh, but that Tehran destroyed the facility after learning it had been exposed.”
Netanyahu also warned that Iran “had conducted secret nuclear-weapons experiments” over the summer.
“IAEA discovery of uranium particles raises questions on scope of Iran’s nuclear program,” by Jackson Richman, Jewish News Service, November 11, 2019:
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that it has discovered uranium traces at an undeclared site in Iran.
“The agency detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency,” according to the IAEA report, reported AFP.
The traces have been deemed to be a uranium product that has been mined and partially processed, but not enriched.
The IAEA report verifies such allegations made by the United States and Israel.
“Recent reports about the latest IAEA findings add important color to the Iranian nuclear drama that is unfolding. Iran’s overarching strategy is incremental escalation, which is designed to heighten fears and raise costs overtime,” Behnam Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS. “This is true for regional, as well as their nuclear, escalation, which we are watching in real time with the resumption of enrichment at the Fordow bunker and the introduction of advanced centrifuges earlier than permitted at another facility.”
Barbara Slavin, who leads the Atlantic Council’s Future Iran Initiative, said that the Trump administration is to blame for the development by withdrawing in May 2018 from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
“Nothing that has been discovered shows that Iran had a structured nuclear-weapons program after 2003 or that it violated the terms of the JCPOA in any way prior to U.S. unilateral withdrawal and reimposition of sanctions,” she told JNS. “That said, Iran clearly warehoused documents and equipment from the program, and has never admitted to the IAEA that its earlier efforts had weapons as a possible goal.”…