Israel Matzav

Iran admits fooling the West to protect its nuke program

Israel Radio quotes the chairman of Iran's Atomic Energy Commission, Fereydoon Abbasi, as telling the pan-Arabic al-Hayat newspaper that Iran has misled the West regarding its nuclear program on many occasions to protect the program.

According to the report, Abbasi said that Iran sometimes overstated and sometimes understated its capabilities, and claimed it had no choice but to do so in order to protect its nuclear sites.

The Iranian complained that Iran was presumed guilty by the international community and that therefore it had no choice but to lie.

UPDATE 2:10 PM

Israel HaYom has more details that Israel Radio did not have.

Iran has been systematically providing false information to the International Atomic Energy Agency because it has been infiltrated by intelligence agencies keeping tabs on Iran's nuclear program, Iran's Atomic Energy Vice President Fereydoun Abbasi Davani has admitted.

Abbasi Davani, who heads the Iranian delegation taking part in the 56th session of the agency in Vienna, made the revelation in an interview with the Al-Hayat newspaper.

"The IAEA says it gets its information from the intelligence services belonging to the member states, and we monitor and followed up seven years ago activities of the British foreign intelligence service [MI6], which gathered information for people, which then exposed [Iranian nuclear scientists] to assassination at the hands of Zionist intelligence agents. Some of the information provided by the agency related to these events. For our part, we sometimes gave false information to protect our nuclear sites and our interests. This inevitably misled other intelligence agencies," Davani told Al-Hayat.

Hmmm.

Labels: IAEA, Iranian nuclear threat

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:07 PM