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Iran’s nuclear chief admits lying to IAEA

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Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani admitted to the London-based al-Hayat newspaper on Thursday to providing false information to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors in order to protect his country’s nuclear facilities and achievements.

Davani, who heads the mission that arrived in Vienna for the annual Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meeting, claimed that Western intelligence agencies – highlighting the British secret service – are collecting information on people with links to the Iranian nuclear program, some of whom include the scientists killed by Israeli agents. It turns out some of these figures were investigated by IAEA inspectors.

“Sometimes we provided false information since there was no other choice but to mislead other intelligence agencies; sometimes we made ourselves appear weak and at other times we reported issues that made us appear strongly than we really were, he said, adding: "Ultimately it became exposed when inspectors directly asked us about these issues."

Referring to the UN's stance toward Iran, Tehran's nuclear chief sad he rejected the IAEA’s hostile position towards us and for treating us as if we are guilty, leaving the onus on us to prove our innocence."

"This is the same tactic that was taken against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, and they are searching a legal framework to isolate Iran and worsen sanctions,” he added.

Davani estimated that the issue surrounding his country’s nuclear program will once again come up in the Security Council in November, in accordance with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s plan and under American pressure.

The U.S. has already made plans and is trying to get international legal approval from the United Nations and Security Council. If this does not succeed, they will try to lead a strike but in the meantime, they cannot do so.

Davani rejected the claim that Iran is preventing inspectors from visiting his country’s nuclear facilities:

“Every time they have asked to visit the facilities, we approved it within two hours, but we do not permit entrance into other sites that they claim constitute nuclear facilities, but which are in fact used for other military operations – for example a site in Parchin that has existed for 90 years, where we are developing weapons, primarily for aerial defense," the Iranian nuclear chief siad.

Abbasi added that Iran has "taken steps to bar aerial or satellite photos of these sites and this is why they want inspectors to enter the site and are trying to plant them as part of the international agency’s framework of inspectors."

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Original piece is http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-s-nuclear-chief-admits-providing-iaea-with-false-information.premium-1.465837

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I am gobsmacked, I really am. there is no way I could have imagined that Iran was not telling the truth about it's nuclear aspirations. What shall we do now??? Who can we trust? Who shall we turn to? Is the sky really falling Henny Penny? Oh, I know, maybe the US will know what to do?! Let's ask Obama The Wise to save us...wrong......no that won't do, he is still talking with that orifice which is exposed when your head is in the sand. Sorry, I left my PC at home.

Posted on 2012-09-21 10:23:18 GMT

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