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IAEA chief says information stolen by Iran refers to Israeli nuclear research site
2025-06-10
[IsraelTimes] In first outside confirmation of Tehran’s claims to have obtained vast trove of Israeli intelligence, Grossi says documents ‘seem to refer’ to Soreq nuclear research facility

The head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that the information Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
claimed it seized regarding Israel’s nuclear program "seems to refer" to the country’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center, the first acknowledgment outside of Tehran of the theft.

The Prime Minister’s Office had no immediate response to the remarks by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, who spoke during a news conference in Vienna.

The alleged theft comes at a time of renewed tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, which enriches uranium a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels and looks poised to reject a US proposal over a possible deal on its atomic program.

"We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this," Grossi told news hounds. "In any case, this seems to refer to Soreq, which is a research facility which we inspect by the way. We don’t inspect other strategic parts of the program, but this part of the program we do inspect."

He did not elaborate on where he received his information, though the IAEA maintains a confidential reporting system for nations to report security incidents involving their nuclear programs.

Soreq, located 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv, is a national laboratory for nuclear science established in Israel in 1958, engaged in nuclear science, radiation safety and applied physics.

The IAEA has so-called item-specific safeguards agreements with Israel, Pakistain and India, all countries that are not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Under Israel’s agreement, the IAEA monitors Soreq but has no access to Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona, believed to provide the fuel for the country’s undeclared nuclear weapons program.

Over the weekend, Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
and later the country’s intelligence minister claimed without offering evidence that Tehran seized an "important treasury" of information regarding Israel’s nuclear program.

Israel, whose undeclared atomic weapons program makes it the only country in the Mideast with nuclear bombs, has not acknowledged any such Iranian operation targeting it.

According to Tasnim, a semi-official Iranian media outlet closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the intelligence was gathered and transferred by Roy Mizrahi and Almog Atias, two Israelis arrested by Israeli police in May on suspicion of collecting intelligence on behalf of Iran.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib claimed thousands of pages of documents had been obtained and would be made public soon. Among them were documents related to the US, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and other countries, which, he claimed, had been obtained through "infiltration" and "access to the sources."

He did not elaborate on the methods used. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
 Khatib, a Shiite holy man, was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2022 over directing "cyber espionage and ransomware attacks in support of Iran’s political goals."

For Iran, the claim may be designed to show the public that the theocracy was able to respond to a 2018 Israeli operation that spirited out what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "half ton" of documents related to Iran’s program.

That Israeli announcement came just before US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
, in his first term, unilaterally withdrew America from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which greatly limited its program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

This week, Western nations are expected to go before the IAEA’s Board of Governors with a proposal to find Iran in noncompliance with the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
’ nuclear watchdog. It could be the first time in decades, and likely would kick the issue to the UN Security Council.

That could see one of the Western countries involved in the 2015 nuclear deal invoke the so-called snapback of UN sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. The authority to restore those sanctions by the complaint of any member of the original 2015 nuclear deal expires in October, putting the West on a clock to exert pressure on Tehran over its program before losing that power.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Israel doesn't have nuclear weapons. If it did, those would have to be inspected.
Refusal to admit weapons inspectors is what led Iraq to be invaded and regime changed.
At least we've got troops near at hand in Syria in case the inspectors are refused entry.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149   2025-06-10 08:31  

#1  How would he know unless Iranians share info with him?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2025-06-10 06:22  

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