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CIA Conspiracy on Iran Nuke Program Revealed
Local Editor
Details of a 15-year-old Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] sting emerging from a court case in the US might prompt United Nations monitors to reassess some evidence related to Iran's nuclear program.
International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] inspectors in Vienna would probably review intelligence they received about Iran as a result of the revelations.
According to the Bloomberg News, trial documents had shown that the CIA passed doctored blueprints for nuclear-weapon components to Iran in February 2000.
"This story suggests a possibility that hostile intelligence agencies could decide to plant a "smoking gun" in Iran for the IAEA to find," said Peter Jenkins, the UK's former envoy to the Vienna-based agency. "That looks like a big problem."
The UN agency was charged with deciding whether the Iranian government had been trying to develop nuclear weapons and its ruling might determine whether international sanctions against the country were lifted.
While Iranian officials had consistently accused the IAEA of basing its case on forged documents, the agency had never acknowledged receiving tampered evidence.
A spokesman for the IAEA said the agency carried out a thorough assessment of the information it received. The CIA didn't immediately respond to e-mail and telephone requests for comment.
The CIA documents were filed as evidence to an Alexandria, Virginia court on Jan. 14 for the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted of leaking classified information about operations against Iran.
Sterling worked on a CIA project aimed at misleading Iranian scientists by feeding modified designs for nuclear-weapons components to the country's IAEA mission in Austria.
"The goal is to plant this substantial piece of deception information on the Iranian nuclear-weapons program, sending them down blind alleys, wasting their time and money," according to a May 1997 cable submitted to the court.
The project remained relevant because elements of the IAEA's suspicions about Iran rested on older information provided by intelligence agencies.
Moreover, IAEA inspectors declared that they did not only rely on spy data;Satellite imagery analysis and open-source data also played roles.
The CIA sting revealed the kind of tactics that the US and its allies had used against Iran.
Nonetheless, the United States and its allies had imposed illegal sanctions on Iran based on the unfounded accusation that Tehran was pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear program.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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