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Head of Iranian News Agency Accuses IAEA Chief of Helping to Kill Nuclear Scientists

by TheTower.org Staff |

A director of Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency has accused International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano of leaking information that led to the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, Fars reported today. Seyed Yasser Jebrayeeli, the deputy managing director of the agency, made the charge in a letter and book that he sent to Amano.

In his letter to the IAEA director-general, Jebrayeeli challenged Amano’s remarks, and asked him to have an in-depth look at the book, ‘Fire at Knowledge’, that has been recently published by FNA to realize how the IAEA’s lax control and lack of proper handling and classifying the member-states’ vital data and information provided Iran’s enemy states with access to the names and personal information of the Iranian nuclear scientists and led to their assassination.

“Although we were stunned to hear Your Excellency demand corroborative evidence to prove the IAEA’s role in the assassination of Iranian scientists, I, hereby, send you a copy of the book, ‘Fire at Knowledge’, which has been recently published by Fars News Agency, and I hope Your Excellency find some time to read it thoroughly and contemplate over its theme and the writer’s objective – i.e. why and how the Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated – in a bid to find out the role of your agency, the IAEA, in these terror attacks,” the letter said.

Many Iranian officials have expressed fear that Amano would leak confidential information damaging to Iran. The spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said last month that Amano “would have been harmed” had he revealed elements of the secret agreements regarding international inspections of Parchin, a military site where Iran is suspected of having conducted experiments on detonating nuclear devices.

According to the terms of the nuclear deal, the IAEA must reach “the Broader Conclusion that all nuclear material in Iran remains in peaceful activities” in order for sanctions relief to begin.

Last year, the sister of a murdered Iranian nuclear scientist charged that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had killed her brother because he had refused to help build a nuclear bomb.

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