Benjamin
Netanyahu’s stage performance about Iran seeking a nuclear weapon
not only was based on old material, but evidence shows it was
fabricated too, says Gareth Porter in this Consortium News exclusive
report.
by
Gareth Porter
Part
5 - More Fraud
There
are other indications of fraud in that collection of documents as
well. A second element of the supposed covert arms program given the
name “Amad Plan” was a “process flow chart” of a bench-scale
system for converting uranium ore for enrichment. It had the code
name “Project 5.13”, according to a briefing by the IAEA Deputy
Director Olli Heinonen, and was part of a larger so-called “Project
5”, according to an official IAEA report. Another sub-project under
that rubric was “Project 5.15”, which involved ore processing at
the Gchine Mine.” Both sub-projects were said to be carried out by
a consulting firm named Kimia Maadan.
But
documents that Iran later provided to the IAEA proved that, in fact,
“Project 5.15” did exist, but was a civilian project of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, not part of a covert nuclear
weapons program, and that the decision had been made in August 1999 –
two years before the beginning of the alleged “Amad Plan” was
said to have begun.
The role
of Kimia Maadan in both sub-projects explains why an ore processing
project would be included in the supposed secret nuclear weapons
program. One of the very few documents included in the cache that
could actually be verified as authentic was a letter from Kimia
Maadan on another subject, which suggests that the authors of the
documents were building the collection around a few documents that
could be authenticated.
Netanyahu
also lingered over Iran’s denial that it had done any work on “MPI”
or (“Multi-Point Initiation”) technology “in hemispheric
geometry”. He asserted that “the files” showed Iran had done
“extensive work” or “MPI” experiments. He did not elaborate
on the point. But Israel did not discover the alleged evidence of
such experiments in a tin-roofed shack in Tehran. The issue of
whether Iran had done such experiments was a central issue in the
IAEA’s inquiry after 2008. The agency described it in a September
2008 report, which purported to be about Iran’s “experimentation
in connection with symmetrical initiation of a hemispherical high
explosive charge suitable for an implosion type nuclear device.”
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