Exclusive: Czechs stopped potential nuclear tech purchase by Iran: sources

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Source: Reuters

The Czech Republic blocked an attempted purchase by Iran this year of a large shipment of sensitive technology useable for nuclear enrichment after false documentation raised suspicions, U.N. experts and Western sources said.

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Some details of the attempted purchase were described in the latest annual report of an expert panel for the United Nations Security Council's Iran sanctions committee, which has been seen by Reuters.

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A Czech state official and a Western diplomat familiar with the case confirmed to Reuters that Iran had attempted to buy the shipment from Howden CKD in the Czech Republic, and that Czech authorities had acted to block the deal.

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"Such compressors can be used to extract enriched uranium directly from the cascades," Olli Heinonen, former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a nuclear expert currently at Harvard University, told Reuters.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/13/us-iran-nuclear-czech-exclusive-idUSKBN0NY2K720150513

[TexasTowelie]

1. Czechmate!

[Wilms]

2. Compressors? Not yellowcake?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Aluminum tubes of death, mobile chemical weapon factories, Niger nuclear yellowcake...where have we heard this before?

Same message, same messengers.

[bananas]

4. North Korea, Pakistan, India, Israel, Apartheid South Africa

Bush was the boy who cried wolf, people didn't believe it when a real wolf came by.
There are real wolves.