In 2006, when Moscow still it opposed sanctions against Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin had secretly ordered the sabotage of Iran's nuclear program to which his country was collaborating. He revealed the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot quoted a confidential cable held by the staff of Wikileaks. The document, not yet available on the website of the newspaper or on the web portal of Julian Assange, recounts a conversation between the director of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission Gideon Frank and the American Ambassador Richard Jones in Tel Aviv.
The incident calls into question the program of construction of Bushehr nuclear power plant was inaugurated by Iran in 2010 but still not operational. At the time, Russia was cooperating in the realization of that, officially, was to be dedicated to the development of nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
A version that has always been hard to convince a large part of the international community. In 1995, Tehran and Moscow signed an agreement with a commitment to provide fuel and technical assistance. The Russians, it turns out today as planned but in the face of growing international tension knowingly agreed to delay the project.
During a conversation with Jones, in February 2006, Frank revealed that he had taken part in a series of secret meetings with senior officials of the security and intelligence of the Russian Federation including Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov , his colleague Sergei Lavrov and Foreign The leader in the Russian Atomic Energy Commission, Sergei Kiriyenko.
It would have been the latter, said Yediot Aharonot, Frank to reassure Moscow about its willingness to postpone the delivery of material to the Bushehr reactor and not to supply the same fuel. Russia, he added Kiriyenko, decided then to justify the delay by invoking alleged technical problems.
Secret in order to sabotage the operation, the official acknowledged, was President Vladimir Putin. If the rumors were to find more evidence, it would be to add more details about the history of the evolution of Russian foreign policy toward Iran that, in recent years, Moscow has seen the star of a progressive cooling in its relations with the Islamic Republic .
It is no secret, moreover, that the pursuit of its nuclear program has raised over time of growing concern not only in the West. In September 2009, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph revealed the existence of a secret deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which provided for the grant of the airspace of that Air Force bombing operations in the event of a nuclear plant located in near Qom, Iran, North Central.
Riad flatly denied but about a year later, a cable of Wikileaks brought to light even a request to attack Iran advanced to the United States no less than the chief of Saudi King Abdullah and revealed by its ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir. On the Iranian nuclear program, moreover, there have been significant international support over the years, perhaps as partial and unofficial.
Last October, citing an anonymous source of the U.S., the Washington Post spoke of a black list drawn up by the U.S. with the names of Chinese companies responsible, in violation of the UN, he had supplied Iran with technology for the development of systems missile and its nuclear program.
At that time, however, is not excluded that the companies involved could have acted in secret without the knowledge of their government. After the revelations of the U.S. newspaper, Beijing officially reaffirmed the correctness of his behavior but did not deny the possibility that some suppliers had breached the rules.
The incident calls into question the program of construction of Bushehr nuclear power plant was inaugurated by Iran in 2010 but still not operational. At the time, Russia was cooperating in the realization of that, officially, was to be dedicated to the development of nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
A version that has always been hard to convince a large part of the international community. In 1995, Tehran and Moscow signed an agreement with a commitment to provide fuel and technical assistance. The Russians, it turns out today as planned but in the face of growing international tension knowingly agreed to delay the project.
During a conversation with Jones, in February 2006, Frank revealed that he had taken part in a series of secret meetings with senior officials of the security and intelligence of the Russian Federation including Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov , his colleague Sergei Lavrov and Foreign The leader in the Russian Atomic Energy Commission, Sergei Kiriyenko.
It would have been the latter, said Yediot Aharonot, Frank to reassure Moscow about its willingness to postpone the delivery of material to the Bushehr reactor and not to supply the same fuel. Russia, he added Kiriyenko, decided then to justify the delay by invoking alleged technical problems.
Secret in order to sabotage the operation, the official acknowledged, was President Vladimir Putin. If the rumors were to find more evidence, it would be to add more details about the history of the evolution of Russian foreign policy toward Iran that, in recent years, Moscow has seen the star of a progressive cooling in its relations with the Islamic Republic .
It is no secret, moreover, that the pursuit of its nuclear program has raised over time of growing concern not only in the West. In September 2009, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph revealed the existence of a secret deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which provided for the grant of the airspace of that Air Force bombing operations in the event of a nuclear plant located in near Qom, Iran, North Central.
Riad flatly denied but about a year later, a cable of Wikileaks brought to light even a request to attack Iran advanced to the United States no less than the chief of Saudi King Abdullah and revealed by its ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir. On the Iranian nuclear program, moreover, there have been significant international support over the years, perhaps as partial and unofficial.
Last October, citing an anonymous source of the U.S., the Washington Post spoke of a black list drawn up by the U.S. with the names of Chinese companies responsible, in violation of the UN, he had supplied Iran with technology for the development of systems missile and its nuclear program.
At that time, however, is not excluded that the companies involved could have acted in secret without the knowledge of their government. After the revelations of the U.S. newspaper, Beijing officially reaffirmed the correctness of his behavior but did not deny the possibility that some suppliers had breached the rules.
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