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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:08 PM Sep 2014

Israel Says Iran Used Parchin Military Site For Testing Nuclear Detonation Technology

(Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday that Iran has used its Parchin military base as the site for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon.

The Jewish state has been a severe critic of six big powers' negotiations with Iran on curbing its nuclear energy programme, suspecting Tehran is only trying to buy time to master sensitive nuclear know-how and would evade the terms of any final deal.

The Islamic Republic says allegations that it is seeking a nuclear weapons capability are false and baseless. Tehran says it is Israel's assumed atomic arsenal that is a destabilising threat to the Middle East.

A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani - the architect of Tehran's nuclear diplomacy - was to address the U.N. General Assembly, said the implosion tests at Parchin involved neutron sources that would include nuclear material.

Israel, his statement said, based its information on "highly reliable information", without elaborating.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-nuclear-iran-israel-idUSKCN0HJ1UX20140924

israel turning up the propaganda, indeed. They must be shitting themselves over all the meetings Iran is having with their adversaries at the UN gathering in New York.

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