by Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff
The nuclear technician with information about the Islamic republic's nuclear program and described as an "Israeli asset for years," was smuggled into the U.K. last New Year's Eve in a joint operation with MI6, the CIA and Mossad, Sunday Express reports.
A rubber dinghy used by Iranian migrants to cross the English
Channel from France, December 31, 2018 Screenshot: YouTube
An
Iranian nuclear technician with information about the Islamic republic's
nuclear program was smuggled into the United Kingdom on New Year's Eve
last year in a joint operation involving MI6, the CIA and Israeli
Mossad, the Sunday Express newspaper reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the 47-year-old nuclear technician had been "an Israel asset for years" who also "helped plan" the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
in 2012. Roshan, a director at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment
facility, was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car in Tehran.
His driver also died. Iran accused the Mossad of carrying out the
assassination.
The plan to smuggle the alleged Israeli
nuclear spy out of Iran, meanwhile, reportedly involved a "3,000-mile
dash across Europe" and a final 22-mile crossing of the English Channel
in a dinghy, hidden among other illegal Iranian immigrants.
Initially, the alleged spy was reportedly smuggled out of his homeland and into neighboring Turkey by the Mossad.
Britain, the report said, tried to conceal
its involvement in the operation because it opposed the U.S. withdrawal
from the nuclear agreement with Iran and remained a party to it.
A British intelligence source told the
Sunday Express: "[The nuclear technician's] absence was noted quickly
[by the Iranians] and we were informed that a special unit of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had been dispatched. Once in France,
the question of how to get him into Britain remained. We couldn't simply
fly him in. Though unusual, it was determined infiltrating him into a
group of fellow migrants preparing to cross the channel by boat offered
one solution."
The report also said that MI6 agents
debriefed the nuclear technician on Iran's nuclear plans before he was
flown to the United States.
Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/02/11/report-mossad-helped-smuggle-nuclear-spy-out-of-iran/
Follow Middle East and Terrorism on Twitter
No comments:
Post a Comment