US device seen at Iran ‘atomic site’
VIENNA: A radiation-monitoring device spotted in Iran at a razed site where Washington suspects Iran conducted covert atomic bomb-related research was itself made in the United States and sold directly to Tehran , sources said.
A Western diplomat and an independent nuclear expert who follow the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters the radiation detection device — called a “whole body counter” — was identified as having been made by the Connecticut-based firm Canberra Industries, Inc.
The disclosure could prove embarrassing to Washington which has accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons programme and has called on countries to crack down on exports of even seemingly innocent machinery that could be used in weapons programmes.
“There is no doubt that the whole-body counter came from Canberra Industries and under a legal export,” said the nuclear science expert, who has analysed satellite images of the site taken by the US firm GlobalDigital’s Quickbird satellite.
Why do the Americans sell nuclear technology to all of their enemies in the first place and then start killing them for having that technology?
Don’t the Americans even feel a little bit ashamed?