by Yonah Jeremy Bob
If the site were truly only for scientific and civilian purposes, Iran would have doubtless shown off the site to international media and to the IAEA nuclear inspectors.
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Iran is sanitizing the site of its SPND nuclear program, which Israel struck twice during the June war, in an effort to prevent any ability by IAEA nuclear inspectors from gathering evidence of the military dimensions of the program, a think tank report said on Wednesday.
In an Institute for Science and International Security (the "good ISIS) report written by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso, and the Good ISIS Team, satellite footage of the site shows heavy sanitization efforts by Iran as of July 3.
Additional satellite footage shows that the site was completely raised by August 19.
If the site were truly only for scientific and civilian purposes, Iran would have doubtless shown off the site to international media and to the IAEA nuclear inspectors.
Instead, the Islamic Republic is sanitizing the site as it has done with numerous sites in the past, once Israel and international inspectors had identified suspicious nuclear activities, most notably at Parchin and Turquzabad.
The Mojdeh site at Malek Ashtar University housed the SPND. The SPND was the successor to the AMAD program, which the Mossad identified as the cover for Tehran's nuclear weapons efforts when it seized Iran's nuclear secrets during a raid in 2018.
Return of the IAEA to Iran
Although Iran finally allowed some IAEA inspectors to return to Iran on Wednesday, it is currently only discussing giving them access to sites which Israel did not attack, such as the Bushehr nuclear reactor, which is in fact only for civilian nuclear purposes.Israeli officials suspect that Iran has been using the last two months to sanitize other military nuclear sites as well, before it would let nuclear inspectors return to them.
Yonah Jeremy Bob
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-865516
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