Information from a 15-year-old Central Intelligence Agency sting emerging from a U.S. court case may prompt United Nations monitors to reevaluate some evidence about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
The CIA’s strategy of providing misleading design information to Iranian scientists is an example of how the U.S. and its allies have worked against Iran, Professor Dan Joyner recently told Bloomberg.
“The falsification of nuclear-related documents is a very real part of such states’ efforts to frustrate Iran’s nuclear program,” said Joyner, who has written extensively on nuclear proliferation risks. “This revelation highlights the dangers of reliance by the IAEA upon evidence concerning Iran provided to it by third party states whose political agendas are antithetical to Iran.”
For more, read “CIA’s Nuclear-Bomb Sting Said To Spur Review In Iran Arms Case.”