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March 9, 2017       Share:    

Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-progressing-nuclear-weapons-via-north-korea/

Iran Is Progressing towards Nuclear Weapons via North Korea

(Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Lt. Col. (ret.) Dr. Refael Ofek and Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham - The Iran nuclear deal placed almost no limits on the enhancement of Tehran's military nuclear program outside Iran. A delegation of Iranian nuclear experts headed by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, director of the Iranian nuclear weapons project, was present at the third North Korean nuclear test in February 2013. Syria served as another important platform for Iran - until the destruction by Israel of the plutonium-based nuclear reactor that had been constructed in Syria by North Korea, a project heavily financed by Tehran. The current Iranian-North Korean interface, which appears to be fully active, serves as a productive substitute for the Iranian activities prohibited by the nuclear deal and enables Iran to continue its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The writers served as senior Israeli intelligence analysts.

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