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Israel meddling with bogus reports on Iran’s nuclear weapons plans?

Israel behind bogus Iran nuclear data leak – reports Rt.com  11 December Israel may be behind a series of leaks implicating Iran in nuclear weapons experiments, Western diplomats say, stressing that in doing so Tel Aviv could have compromised the ongoing UN investigation intoTehran’s nuclear activities and ambitions.
In its efforts to raise international pressure on Tehran, Israel supposedly carried out leaks of several documents from an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation, The Guardian reported on Monday citing Western diplomats.
The latest leak, published by the Associated Press last month, showed
a diagram representing the results of a computer modeling of a
50-kiloton nuclear device. The chart was leaked by an unnamed official
from “a country critical of Iran’s atomic program,” AP said.
However, the report came under fire shortly afterwards, with critics
pointing out that the diagram was not only flawed but based on
unclassified information. “This diagram does nothing more than
indicate either slipshod analysis or an amateurish hoax,” nuclear
scientists Yousaf Butt and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress declared on the
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website…….
Despite increasingly heated rhetoric from Tel Aviv and Washington, the
international community still lacks evidence that Iran has been
working on nuclear weapons since 2003. However, the IAEA’s publication
of summary intelligence on an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program
helped the US and EU to impose a new round of sanctions against
Tehran.
Now, the “amateurish hoax” is said to threaten the position of the
IAEA’s inspectors.
“Whoever did this has undermined the IAEA’s credibility and made it
harder for it to do its work,” David Albright, a nuclear expert at the
Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, said,
as cited by The Guardian…….
http://rt.com/news/israel-leaked-graph-iran-773/

December 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, secrets,lies and civil liberties