Iran’s regime caught seeking nuclear weapons technology in Sweden
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JERUSALEM – As the Biden administration seeks to temporarily restrain Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, a damning new Swedish intelligence report accuses the Islamic Republic of Iran of illegally trying to secure nuclear weapons technology in the Scandinavian nation in 2021.
The Swedish document casts fresh questions over the effectiveness of the controversial Iran nuclear deal that rewards the clerical regime with up to $275 billion in economic benefits in the first year of a deal and as much as $1 trillion by 2030, according to one estimate.
The formal name of the intelligence report – the Swedish Security Yearbook – revealed “Iran also conducts industrial espionage that primarily targets Swedish high-tech industry and Swedish products that could be used in a nuclear weapons program.”
The 80-page intelligence report listing national security threats to Sweden noted “Iranian intelligence officials are acting, among other things, under diplomatic cover in Sweden.”
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In response to a press request from Fox News Digital, a spokesman for the Swedish security service said, “The Swedish security service considers Iran to be one of the three countries that pose the most serious security threat to Sweden and Swedish interests. The other two are Russia. and China.”
Asked about the nature of Iran’s efforts to secure illicit nuclear weapons technology, the spokesman said: “As a national security agency, much of our information is derived from classified intelligence. We cannot go into more detail than is provided in the yearbook. .”
Iranian-Swedish human rights activist Laleh Bazargan told Fox News Digital “The Islamic regime in Iran is not a normal government” and the regime “is built on the foundation of killing dissidents, taking hostages, bombings, terrorist attacks and creating chaos.”
Bazargan added “This regime is a bully that sits on lucrative oil and gas resources, and because of that the free world has negotiated and accepted its egregious actions. Enough is enough. Europe and the US must understand that this regime is a danger to the world security and must be crushed in the same way Hitler was crushed.”
Bazargan testified in a court in Stockholm against former Iranian regime official Hamid Nouri, who was convicted in July of war crimes in connection with the mass murder of political prisoners in Iran in 1988.
The Trump administration sanctioned Iran’s current president, Ebrahim Raisi, for his role in the mass execution of 5,000 Iranian prisoners in 1988. The theocratic state executed Bazargan’s brother, Bijan, during the 1988 wave of killings to wipe out dissent.
The Swedish intelligence reports added new evidence to the claims that Iran’s regime is working on a nuclear weapons program. The Swedish government released the report in March, and Fox News Digital translated segments about Iran’s covert efforts to acquire illicit nuclear technology and its monitoring in the northern European country.
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President Trump has said the Iran deal fails to stop Tehran from building a nuclear weapons device and simply pumped billions into Iran’s terror-sponsoring scheme. As a result, Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018. Biden believes that a US re-entry into the deal will help curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The US State Department has designated Iran’s regime as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
In June, Fox News Digital first reported on a German intelligence report, declaring that Iran was increasing its efforts to acquire technology for its nuclear weapons program.
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According to the German report, “The German domestic intelligence services were able to identify a significant increase in indications of proliferation-related procurement attempts by Iran for its nuclear program.”
The German intelligence report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution defines proliferation as “procurement of know-how and products for the development and production of weapons of mass destruction and delivery technology.”