{"id":119591,"date":"2021-02-06T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119591"},"modified":"2021-02-06T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:43:48","slug":"evidence-of-undeclared-nuclear-activities-discovered-at-locations-in-iran-that-raise-new-concerns-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evidence-of-undeclared-nuclear-activities-discovered-at-locations-in-iran-that-raise-new-concerns-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Evidence Of Undeclared Nuclear Activities\u2019 Discovered At Locations In Iran That Raise New Concerns: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fevidence-of-undeclared-nuclear-activities-discovered-at-locations-in-iran-that-raise-new-concerns-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>International inspectors from the United Nations have reportedly found new evidence of nuclear activity in Iran that the nation has not reported\u2014in violation of its international obligations\u2014and that could be indicative of work on making nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.\u2019s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) discovered the \u201cnew evidence of undeclared nuclear activities\u201d at two sites during inspections last fall, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iran-u-n-inspectors-find-radioactive-traces-raising-fresh-concerns-11612567304\">reported<\/a>, according to multiple diplomats briefed on the situation. The two samples \u201ccontained traces of radioactive material\u201d that they believe \u201ccould indicate Iran has undertaken work on nuclear weapons, based on where it was found.\u201d The report did not state what specifically was discovered at the two sites.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, which blocked the investigators from inspecting the two sites for more than half of last year, has also reportedly threatened to restrict inspectors ability to access sites later in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IAEA listed in a report in June questions it was asking Iran to clarify on a range of work that could be used for nuclear weapons. One suspicion was Iranian drilling of a uranium metal disc that could be used to create material for a neutron initiator, experts say, a key component of a nuclear weapon,\u201d the report said. \u201cA second suspicion was that nuclear material had been introduced at a site where Iran may have tested high explosives that can be used to detonate a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency is also asking Iran about another undeclared site where illicit uranium conversion and processing may have taken place,\u201d the report added. \u201cAll the suspected activities took place in the early 2000s or earlier, according to the agency. Two of the sites were razed years ago. Another site was sanitized by Iran in 2019, the IAEA reported. The IAEA said it has not ruled out that materials from this nuclear work have been used more recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Albright, a former weapons inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told The Wall Street Journal that the discovery of the radioactive materials does, in fact, \u201chave undeclared nuclear material, despite its denials\u201d and that it&nbsp;\u201cindicate[s] that Iran did have a nuclear weapons program in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, nuclear weapons expert Dr. Peter Vincent Pry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-%E2%80%93-expert-iran-already-has-nuclear-ryan-saavedra\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that he believes that Iran already has nuclear weapons based on numerous indicators from the IAEA\u2019s reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cEven the IAEA in their 2011 report, if people would read it, found things that were so alarming \u2026 there\u2019s a virtual smoking gun that Iran already has the bomb,\u201d Pry said. \u201cThe IAEA was reporting it found prior to 2003 that Iran was already manufacturing bridge wire detonators, neutron initiators, they had done an implosion test already, they had done 14 different designs correct for a nuclear warhead to see if they could fit the psychics package for a nuclear warhead into the reentry vehicle for the Shahab-3 high explosive warhead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pry said it was blatantly obvious that Iran most likely already has nuclear weapons, saying that \u201canyone with half a brain\u201d could see it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause when we were doing things like that back in the Manhattan project days when we were working with 1930s and 1940s aero technology,\u201d Pry continued. \u201cWhen the United States was doing implosion tests and building bridge wire detonators, and neutron initiators, we were within 3-6 months of getting the bomb.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just implausible that Iran before 2003 was at that stage and then never crossed the finish line,\u201d Pry concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The news comes after the head of U.S. Strategic Command <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-u-s-commander-we-must-assume-very-real-possibility-that-we-may-need-use-nukes-china-russia\">warned<\/a> in an article this week that the U.S. needed to shift the \u201cprincipal assumption\u201d it uses to approach nations that have nuclear weapons, specifically Russia and China, from \u201c\u2018nuclear employment is not possible\u2019 to \u2018nuclear employment is a very real possibility,\u2019 and act to meet and deter that reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International inspectors from the United Nations have reportedly found new evidence of nuclear activity in Iran that the nation has not reported\u2014in violation of its international obligations\u2014and that could be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892782,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5595,5596,3823,5598,4639,5593],"class_list":["post-119591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activities","tag-discovered","tag-iran","tag-locations","tag-nuclear","tag-undeclared"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}