The Jerusalem Post published an article by Herb Keinon entitled "Former Iran atomic agency head tells about sabotaged material, deceiving IAEA."
"The former head of Iran's anomic energy organization admitted in a recent interview to an Iranian paper that Tehran lied to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and also described the ways the west subverted the country's nuclear program by selling sabotaged parts," the article begins.
"Fereydoon Abbasi, who headed the Iranian agency under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told the Khorasan newspaper that at one point Iran stopped submitting the Design Information Questionnaire that the IAEA routinely requested to chart the planning and progress of Iran's nuclear facilities," the author writes.
"This decision was taken, he said, because of Iran's concern that the information of what parts Iran was seeking was transferred to western intelligence agencies which would then ensure that faulty or sabotaged parts were supplied," the author of the article informs.
"The IAEA inspector would honestly report, for instance, that a certain part or a certain pump had yet to arrive [in Iran], or to be installed," the Jerusalem Post cites Fereydoon Abbasi as saying.
"With negotiations over Iran's nuclear program continuing, one Israeli government official said that Abbasi's comments "should serve as a wake-up call to anyone who has any doubt about the duplicity and mendacity of the Iranian regime, and their desire to hoodwink the international community," Herb Keinon concludes.
