Sources within theIAEAcomplained that Israel, in its zeal to expose Irans nuclear-weapons related activities and, by implication, its attempt to paint theIAEAas slow and indecisive in its scrutiny of Irans nuclear activities has stolenIAEAsecret documents about Irans nuclear program and, after editing, gave them to the AssociatedPressIsraels covert campaign against Irans nuclear program has been going on for two decades now, but it now appears that Israels secret service, Mossad, has been targeting theUNnuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for some cloak-and-dagger action aswell.
Sources within theIAEAcomplainedto theGuardianthat Israel, in its zeal to expose Irans nuclear-weapons related activities and, by implication, its attempt to paint theIAEAas slow and indecisive in its scrutiny of Irans nuclear activities has stolenIAEAsecret documents about Irans nuclear program and, after editing, gave them to the AssociatedPress.
IAEAnoted that the editing effort was not very good, and one of the graphs handed toAPcontained elementary error. TheBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, noting the error, said that This diagram does nothing more than indicate either slipshod analysis or an amateurishhoax.
Experts who have seen the documents said the graph in question was based on a spreadsheet of data in theIAEAs possession which appears to analyze the energy released by a nuclear blast. The mistake was made when that data was transposed onto a graph, on which the wrong units were used on one of theaxes.
IAEAsaid that the document stolen, and then edited and released, appeared to be an attempt by Israel to justify its assassination campaign against Iranian nuclear scientists especially Majid Shahriar and Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani who were attacked in Tehran in November 2010 (Shahriar was killed, Abbasi-Davaniwounded).
TheGuardianquotes analysts to say that the recent leaks may undermine theIAEAeffort to monitor Irans nuclear activities because they have shown theIAEAs hand, revealing what the agency knows and does not know. This will make it more difficult for the agencys inspectors in their so-far-fruitless talks with Iranian officials about the countrys past nuclearactivities.
David Albright, a nuclear expert at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington,D.C.said he had no knowledge of who was behind the leak but added: Whoever did this has undermined theIAEAs credibility and made it harder for it to do itswork.
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