Well, well, well. Remember when Israel agreed to US terms to avoid nuclear sites while retaliating for Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack? It turns out that the Iranians’ attempts to play cute with the IAEA gave Israel an opening to destroy a key research facility — and leave the Iranians unable to complain about it.
When the Iranians first began pursuing nuclear weapons, much of that work took place at a facility in Parchin. After their program got exposed, the Iranians shuttered Parchin and moved that work into more defensible locations. The Iranians have insisted ever since that Parchin no longer played an active role in nuclear research, but that turned out to be a lie, Axios reports. And both the US and Israel knew it:
- Israeli and U.S. intelligence began detecting research activity at Parchin earlier this year, including Iranian scientists…
