Report: Israeli forces operating in Iran
Sunday Times reports Israeli special forces said to be operating inside Iran in urgent attempt to locate country’s secret uranium enrichment sites; ‘we found several suspected sites last year, but there must be more,’ intelligence source quoted as saying
Israel’s special forces are said to be operating inside Iran in an urgent attempt to locate the country’s secret uranium enrichment sites, according to the Sunday Times.
“We found several suspected sites last year but there must be more,” an Israeli intelligence source was quoted by the newspaper as saying. The forces are operating from a base in northern Iraq, guarded by Israeli soldiers with the approval of the Americans, according to Israeli sources.
Two Iranian opposition groups claimed this weekend that Iran had increased its production of Shahab 3 missiles, which have a range of 1,200 miles, sufficient to reach Israel, the Sunday Times report said.
‘Iranians are lying’
Meanwhile, the man who for two years led Iran's nuclear negotiations has laid out in unprecedented detail how the regime took advantage of talks with Britain, France and Germany to forge ahead with its secret atomic program, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 until last year, revealed how Teheran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear program was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002, according to the report.
He said that while talks were taking place in Teheran, Iran was able to complete the installation of equipment for conversion of yellowcake - a key stage in the nuclear fuel process - at its Isfahan plant but at the same time convince European diplomats that nothing was afoot, the Telegraph said
"From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything.' The Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them'," he said.
