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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Covert Action Suspected In Iranian Nuclear Troubles -- Global Security Newswire

Iran's uranium enrichment work has encountered a number of technical
difficulties in the last year, prompting experts to speculate over
what role clandestine interference might have played in the troubles,
the Financial Times reported yesterday (see GSN, July 22).

The U.N. Security Council and various governments have adopted
punitive measures aimed at pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment,
a process that could produce nuclear-weapon material as well as fuel
for civilian applications. Tehran has maintained its atomic ambitions
are strictly peaceful.

Read more ....http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100723_4215.php

See also:

Suggestions of Iran nuclear sabotage
By James Blitz and Roula Khalaf in London and Daniel Dombey in Washington
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc135fc6-95af-11df-b5ad-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Sabotage Slowing Iran Nuke Progress? CIA Won't Say
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/06/sabotage-slowing-iran-nuke-progress-cia-wont-say.html
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