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Iranian cleanup of Mojdeh nuclear site likely to erase proof of atomic work — report
2025-08-28
[IsraelTimes] Institute for Science and International Security says Tehran appears to be ‘sanitizing any incriminating nuclear weapons research’ at Mojdeh, which Israel bombed twice this June

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has launched a speedy cleanup operation at a nuclear-related site in northern Tehran hit by Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s that will likely remove evidence of any nuclear weapons development work, a research group said on Wednesday.

Satellite imagery "shows a significant effort by Iran to rapidly demolish damaged or destroyed buildings, likely to sanitize any incriminating nuclear weapons research and development activities," the Institute for Science and International Security said.

The institute is an independent research group that focuses on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and is headed by David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector.

Iran’s embassy to the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
 did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons and repeatedly has said its program is for peaceful purposes.

The report on the Mojdeh site comes as the UN nuclear watchdog holds ongoing talks in Tehran on restarting inspections disrupted by the June 13-24 war between Israel and Iran and the June 22 US strikes on the country’s three main nuclear facilities.

Britannia, La Belle France and Germany are likely to begin on Thursday the process of reimposing UN sanctions on Iran for violating a 2015 nuclear deal designed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, according to four diplomats.

Rafael Grossi, the head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told news hounds on Wednesday at the end of a two-day visit to Washington that Iran is legally obligated to allow inspections to resume and that they should begin "as soon as possible."

The agency, he said, wants to visit "all of the sites that are relevant," including the main nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan — hit by the US and to account for Iran’s stock of more than 400 kg (882 pounds) of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade purity.

MOJDEH STRIKES
Israel twice bombed the Mojdeh site, also known as Lavisan II, adjacent to Malek Ashtar University on June 18, the institute’s report said, during the operation that hit hundreds of targets across Iran.

It noted that the IAEA had established a direct link between Mojdeh and the AMAD Plan, a nuclear weapons development program that the agency and US intelligence separately concluded ended in 2003.

The first Israeli strike on Mojdeh hit several buildings, the report said. One was associated with the Institute of Applied Physics and another had a suspected link to the Shahid Karimi Group, which the US has sanctioned for work on missiles and explosive-related projects.

The group belongs to the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which the US and the IAEA say is the direct successor to the AMAD Plan.

The second Israeli strike destroyed the Institute of Applied Physics building, damaged a security building and destroyed a workshop, according to a June 20 satellite image from Maxar Technologies, the report said.

A July 3 image depicted the beginning of the cleanup and removal of debris, the report said. August 19 imagery showed that the Applied Physics building and workshop had been razed and the debris completely cleared, as was the building suspected of housing the Shahid Karimi group.

"The rapid work by Iran to quickly demolish and clear the rubble of these important buildings appears to be an effort to sanitize the site and limit the availability of any possible future inspection from obtaining" evidence of nuclear weapons-related work, the report said.

IRAN THREATENS TO STOP WORK WITH IAEA IF ’SNAPBACK’ SANCTIONS IMPOSED
Also Wednesday, Iran said that the return of UN nuclear inspectors did not represent a full resumption of cooperation, after Grossi announced that the watchdog began work at the key nuclear site of Bushehr in southwestern Iran.

"No final text has yet been approved on the new cooperation framework with the IAEA and views are being exchanged," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, quoted by state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Under an Iranian law suspending cooperation with the IAEA, inspectors may access Iranian nuclear sites only with the approval of the country’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council.

Tehran has said repeatedly that future cooperation with the agency will take "a new form."

The front man for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said the IAEA inspectors would oversee the replacement of fuel at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

He made no mention of whether inspectors would be allowed access to other sites, including Fordo and Natanz, which were hit during the war.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Karim Gharibabadi meanwhile said that if so-called European snapback sanctions are triggered, "the path of interaction that we have now opened with the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency will also be completely affected and will probably stop."

On Tuesday, Russia circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at pushing back the deadline for triggering snapback sanctions by six months, according to the text seen by AFP.

The Russian proposal does not set preconditions for the deadline extension.

Russia’s deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said that the updated proposal was designed to "give more breathing space for diplomacy," adding that he hoped it "will be acceptable".

"It will be kind of a litmus test for those who really want to uphold diplomatic efforts, and for those who don’t want any diplomatic solution, but just want to pursue their own nationalist, selfish agendas against Iran," he told media.
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