Fox News reports that intelligence experts suggest they may have found the smoking gun regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program:
UPI – Iran may be trying to purge a military site a U.N. watchdog suspects may house a nuclear weapons program, Western officials said satellite images indicate.
The images of the Parchin Iranian military complex, located about 20 miles southeast of Tehran, show trucks and earth-moving vehicles doing cleanup, two diplomats told CNN.
It was not clear what the vehicles were cleaning, the diplomats said.
But the images raised concerns inside the International Atomic Energy Agency — the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog — that Iran was attempting to remove any evidence linking Parchin to nuclear-weapons development, CNN and The Wall Street Journal reported.
The IAEA twice tried to visit Parchin last month to assess its suspicions Iran conducted explosives tests there with the aim of developing atomic weapons.
Tehran rejected the IAEA’s requests twice.
But senior Iranian officials said Tuesday Tehran was now reassessing the request and would likely allow a visit in the coming months, the IAEA said.