Inspectors from the UN’s nuclear agency have found traces of radioactive material in a warehouse in Tehran that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified last year as a “secret atomic warehouse,” stated four senior Israeli officials.
According to the officials, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited the site several times after Netanyahu identified it in an address to the UN General Assembly last September, took soil samples, and have now definitively concluded that there were “traces of radioactive material” there.
These statements appeared in a report for Channel 13, and this report revealed that Israel and the US exerted pressure on the IAEA to declare publicly the inspection results. The statement followed seven months of a Reuters agency report showing that the agency inspectors examined the area Netanyahu spoke about, without disclosing the outcomes back then.
Speaking at the United Nations last September, Netanyahu called on the IAEA to inspect what he said was the “secret atomic warehouse” in the Iranian capital. He claimed some 15 kilograms of radioactive material had been recently removed from the atomic warehouse and squirreled away around Tehran, endangering the capital’s residents.
“You know what they did with it? They had 15 kilograms of radioactive material, they had to get it out of the site, so they took it out and they spread it around Tehran in an effort to hide the evidence,” he added.
"You see since we raided the atomic archive, they’ve been busy cleaning out the atomic warehouse... I repeat: Israel will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons."
Netanyahu spoke Thursday with US President Donald Trump regarding the Iranian issue. The former tweeted, "I spoke with US President Donald Trump. We discussed regional developments and security issues.”
He also discussed on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin developments on Syria and Iran.
