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UN Finds Evidence of Radioactive Material in Iranian Warehouse, Israeli Officials Say
(Axios) Barak Ravid - UN inspectors have found evidence of illicit nuclear activity in an Iranian warehouse which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in an address to the UN last September was used to store nuclear equipment and material, four Israeli officials told me. The Iranians claimed the warehouse in Tehran was a carpet factory. Storing nuclear materials secretly without reporting it to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a violation of the nuclear proliferation treaty to which Iran is a party. UN inspectors visited the site in March, Israeli officials tell me. IAEA inspectors took soil samples to try and find evidence of radioactivity. The tests came back positive, and in the last few weeks it became clear that the remains of radioactive material were found at the site.