Redefining Chutzpah: Israel’s Mossad Steals Iran’s Top Secret Nuclear Weapons Files
May 6, 2018
Kal K Korff
When Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, walked toward the exhibits he intended to show, which as he began his speech were covered in black tarps, he oozed self-confidence. Why shouldn’t he be? His intelligence agency, Mossad, had just pulled off an amazing top secret operation, the likes of which had never been achieved before.
Netanyahu dropped his global political bombshell when he announced from Israel’s Ministry of Defense that Israeli intelligence had obtained copies of top secret documents and imagery which proves that Iran has lied about its secret rogue nuclear weapons program. While Netanyahu mentioned that over 100,000 documents and image files (including video) were captured and are now in Israeli possession, the real number may be closer to 500,000 if certain reports about this seized material are true.
The key message in Netanyahu’s speech could not be more blunt: Iran Lied. Not only did he prove this fact in his presentation, which lasted slightly more than 20 minutes, let us review the facts and separate truth from fiction where it concerns Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program and the subsequent Iranian Nuclear Deal (IND) that is currently in effect.
For years, Iran has “denied” ever having a nuclear weapons program. Their claim has always been a lie since the late 1980s when the late Ayatollah Khomeini originally authorized it at the urging of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was then Iran’s Speaker of Parliament when Iran was fighting a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Pakistan
As previously exposed by this writer, it was from the country of Pakistan that Iran first hoped to outright purchase a rogue nuclear bomb assembled and “ready to go” from its renegade scientist, the now disgraced Dr. Abdul Khan, who is known by his supporters as being Pakistan’s “Father of the Atom Bomb.” Khan played a key role in smuggling out centrifuge parts engineering blueprints when he briefly worked for the Urenco company in the Netherlands. Centrifuges are vital pieces of equipment which are used to enrich Uranium up to the bomb grade levels necessary to make nuclear weapons.
Khan found the black market for rogue nukes to be so lucrative, he ended up supplying Iran, Libya and Communist North Korea with his illegal wares. In 2005, Pakistan’s Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, publicly admitted that, “Dr. Abdul Qadeer gave some centrifuges to Iran. He helped Iran in his personal capacity, and the Pakistan government had nothing to do with it.” Dr. Khan would later be pardoned by former Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, after he confessed over a year earlier to supplying rogue nuclear related equipment to both Iran, Libya and North Korea. So if Iran never had a nuclear weapons program and additionally never intended to acquire nuclear weapons, then why did they try to buy them “ready to go” from Pakistan? After Pakistan’s refusal to sell them any, why did Iran subsequently accept the nuclear bomb making advice, hardware items and blueprints from Dr. Khan? The answer to these questions are obvious: Iran lied.
Lying Leadership
“I stress that the Islamic Republic has never been after nuclear weapons,” declared Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Khameini. What Khameini said, was an outright lie. “Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions,” emphasized Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani in a speech he gave before the United Nations.
“We didn’t have any program to develop nuclear weapons. Anyway, we consider nuclear weapons both irrational as well as immoral,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif in an interview he gave to PBS Television in the USA.
These claims by these top three Iranian leaders share one huge common problem: they are all blatant, brazen lies. For the world now not only knows that Iran had and still is operating a rogue nuclear weapons program, the name of this top secret project has also been exposed by Israel: Project Amad.
Project Amad
In 2003, Iran’s Minister of Defense, Ali Shamkani, ordered that Project Amad be divided into two parts: overt and covert. On October 25, 2003, Dr. Moshen Fakhrizadeh, who was then Director of Amad, gave orders that publicly, Project Amad was being disclosed and then closed.
This move has been Iran’s official schtick since then, that essentially it “gave up” developing rogue nukes out of consideration (in part) of the USA’s invasion of neighboring Iraq, the formal “justification” for which was to destroy Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.
While Project Amad was publicly disclosed, its covert part still operates in secrecy and is overseen by an Iranian unit known as SPND, which is run by Iran’s Defense Ministry. Dr. Fakhrizadeh still remains its Director these 15 years later.
Dr. Fakhrizadeh is a very interesting individual. He is not a “sweet and innocent type,” in fact his speciality is Nuclear Physics and miniaturizing warheads. Fakhrizadeh has both sanctions and a travel ban levied against him. He refuses to be interviewed by the UN’s IAEA, Iranian authorities won’t make him available.
The documents released by Israel prove that Iran never wholly abandoned their rogue nuke program. Under the terms of the IND, Iran was never forced to “come clean” about its past weapons related activities. Whatever Iran learned or engineered, the world would never know. Thanks to Israel, the public now knows that Iran had indeed successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads. Nuclear weapons are useless if they cannot be delivered to desired targets. Iran’s new ballistic missiles can now carry nuclear warheads, even if Iran has yet to physically build them. The existence of these newly minted nuclear capable missiles, such as Iran’s Shahab 3, is in violation of the IND.
Another key area Iran uses to further cheat the spirit of the IND has to do with its continuing development of nuclear capable cruise missiles. Iran made this breakthrough 17 years ago when rogue weapons dealers in Ukraine sold to Iran 12 Soviet era Kh55 cruise missiles which have a range of 1,860 miles. One does not purchase a Kh55 for “peaceful” purposes. Iran is now making its own domestic versions of this cruise missile, which are not covered by the IND thanks to the Obama administration caving in on this issue.
Obama Lies
Speaking of former President Barack Obama, as previously exposed by this writer, Obama lied when he said on August 5, 2015 that, “After two years of negotiations, we have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a bomb. It contains the most comprehensive verification regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program.” The word “permanently” according to the dictionary means “everlasting” or “eternal.” The opposite word of “permanent,” is temporary. The IND has a maximum shelf life of 15 years, with most of its claimed “protections” ending within a 10 years. 10–15 years is nowhere near “permanently,” is it?
Obama also lied when he said that “snap inspections” were part of the IND. They never have been. The definition of a “snap inspection” simply means that an authorized inspector can demand to see a facility, and that access must be granted instantly.
There is no such provision in the IND to do this! Instead, any requested “snap inspections” (to use Obama’s deliberately deceptive term) require a written 24 days’ advanced notice, which Iran still has the right to refuse.
The IAEA admitted in September 2017 that it could no longer certify that Iran was compliant with Section T of the IND, which is its most important part: preventing it from making nuclear weapons. Out of frustration, the IAEA spent the last few months of 2017 holding a series of special meetings trying to get straight answers from Iran regarding its compliance with Section T. For it is a myth that when the IAEA “certifies” that Iran is seemingly “in compliance” with the terms of the IND, that this somehow automagically means that Iran isn’t busy cheating. Unfortunately, there never has been this direct cause and effect. Let’s easily prove this fact.
Flawed
One of the inconvenient truths about the IND is that it doesn’t truly prevent Iran from proceeding with making nuclear weapons and/or continuing to conduct banned experiments. The reason the IND empowers Iran to easily cheat, if it wants to, is because it has severe limitations on what facilities can be inspected in Iran.
Thanks to the disclosure by Israel of these new secret Iranian documents, we now know that Project Ahmad was split into two entities, its covert or secret implementation is directly overseen by Iran’s Ministry of Defense.
Under the terms of the IND, all Iranian military and military related facilities are off limits to IAEA inspectors. Put another way, they cannot be checked. This is the truth where it concerns Iran, we cannot be 100 percent certain that Iran has not built additional secret facilities the IAEA knows nothing about because they are hidden on military bases which cannot be inspected. Obviously, one cannot know answers when one is never allowed to ask any questions. Moreover, it can be logically argued that the very overall principle that ‘drives’ the IND agreement is wrong. Think about the dynamics inherent in it. Iran is essentially getting rewarded for staying within international laws by supposedly halting its violations of the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.
Iran says that if it is sanctioned, it will resume making nukes. This is called blackmail. This is like rewarding a bank robber to not rob the bank, because said payment might be cheaper to the criminal than the cost of suffering an actual robbery. Imagine being paid to suddenly obey the laws and not make nuclear weapons. “Tough gig,” if you can get it!
Iran must not be allowed to intimidate and threaten other nations, period. Unless the loopholes in the IND are closed, the world is not “more secure” with this agreement, it is left instead in a state of increasing uncertainty.
Israel’s position on the IND is razor clear: Iran’s nuclear facilities should be crippled or destroyed in such a way so as to guarantee that they can never be used to make an atomic bomb. Israel wants a genuinely permanent solution, not one that is really temporary and is being marketed deceptively as if it were “permanent” in nature when it never has been.
For if Iran resumes making nukes, Saudi Arabia and Egypt will likely follow. This dynamic would start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, the most volatile region in the world. The IND must be renegotiated and done right this time, it must not once again continue to kick the proverbial can down the road so that it becomes even a greater burden for future generations. Our children must not inherit the mess that the so-called “adults” in this world refused to handle responsibly.
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