NUCLEAR WARNING: Iran seeks weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION, claims intelligence reports
IRAN is trying build an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction despite claims the nation is sticking to the terms of a nuclear arms deal, according to German intelligence reports.
Officers from the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution found Iran to be a “risk country” that is “making efforts to expand its conventional arsenal of weapons with weapons of mass destruction”. The agency, Bavaria’s equivalent of M15, defined weapons of mass destruction as “the spread of atomic, biological, chemical weapons of mass destruction.” The German report emerged as tensions in the Middle East continue to soar.
US defence chiefs beefed up their military presence in the Gulf by deploying the the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the volatile region and warned American citizens to steer clear in response to unspecified threats from Iran.
Washington has also has accused Iran of being behind a string of incidents, including the sabotage of oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and a rocket that landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Tehran-backed Houthi rebels have been firing rockets in to Saudi Arabia from neighbouring Yemen as the bloody conflict there rumbles on.
Iran has taunted the US by declaring it was quadrupling its production capacity of low-enriched uranium, making it likely the country will soon exceed stockpile limits set by the nuclear accord.
America has deployed the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the Gulf (Image: GETTY)
The Islamic Republic had agreed to restrict development on its nuclear program in exchange for economic concessions as part of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
But Donald Trump puled America out of the JCPOA, informally known as the Iran deal, a year ago because he believed the agreement did not stop Tehran from building nuclear weapons.
Richard Grenell, the US Ambassador to Germany, told Fox News: “We know the Iranian regime is on the hunt for money to fund their malign activities and so it is imperative that the US and our European allies work together to deny this regime the capital they seek.
“They will use secretive schemes and dark money. We must be vigilant. They are strapped for cash.”
US Navy flagship USS Abraham Lincoln (Image: GETTY)
The Bavarian intelligence report said: “In order to obtain the necessary know-how and corresponding components, these states Iran, North Korea, Pakistan are trying to establish business contacts to companies in highly technological countries like Germany.”
According to the 335-page report, Germany’s criminal customs police prevented an electronic beam welding machine from being transported to Iran through a shady Malaysian company.
It said: “The machine can be used for the production of missile launch vehicles.”
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