IAEA Suggests Iran's Alleged Nuclear Info Theft Involves Israel's Soreq Center

The head of the UN's atomic energy agency IAEA says that the information which Iran claims to have obtained about Israel's nuclear weapons program "appears to be" about the Soreq Nuclear Research Center. He is the first outside of Teheran to address the Iranian claims.

» Published: June 09 2025 at 16:39

IAEA Suggests Iran's Alleged Nuclear Info Theft Involves Israel's Soreq Center
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The Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib claims that Iran, through among other things infiltration, has obtained a "gold mine with strategic, operational and technical intelligence information about the Zionist regime (Israel's government)".

It is alleged to be about thousands of documents about Israel's nuclear weapons program that Khatib claims will be made public shortly.

IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi says at a press conference in Vienna that the IAEA has not been notified of any official communication regarding the alleged theft.

In any case, it seems to be about Soreq, which is a research facility that we, by the way, inspect.

Soreq is located two miles south of Tel Aviv and is a national laboratory that works with nuclear science, radiation safety and applied physics.

Israel, which has not joined the international disarmament and non-proliferation treaty NPT, has neither commented on the alleged theft nor the IAEA chief's claim.

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