{"id":309551,"date":"2025-05-31T05:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309551"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:56:56","slug":"iran-rails-at-austria-over-fake-intel-report-saying-tehran-is-seeking-nuclear-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309551","title":{"rendered":"Iran rails at Austria over \u2018fake\u2019 intel report saying Tehran is seeking nuclear bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFP \u2013 May 30, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Iran summons Austria\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires after it branded as \u201cfake\u201d an Austrian intelligence report that said Tehran is seeking to acquire atomic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The spat comes even as Tehran pursues delicate negotiations with the United States on its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>In its annual report on global threats, Austria\u2019s domestic intelligence service (DSN) said Monday that Iran\u2019s \u201cnuclear weapons development program is well advanced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States, Israel and other Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of seeking to acquire a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has categorically denied the claims, instead arguing that it is pursuing a nuclear program for civilian purposes alone.<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), however, Iran is the only country in the world that enriches uranium up to 60 percent.<\/p>\n<p>That rate is still below the 90 percent threshold required for a nuclear weapon, but far above the 3.67 percent limit set under a 2015 agreement with world powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll efforts to prevent Iran\u2019s armament through sanctions and agreements have so far proved ineffective,\u201d the Austrian report says.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Iran\u2019s foreign ministry condemns \u201cthe fake information\u201d disseminated in the report and demands an explanation from Austria\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>It summoned Austria\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires in Tehran Michaela Pacher to \u201cconvey Iran\u2019s strong protest,\u201d the official IRNA news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>It says that during the meeting, the ministry \u201cemphasized the complete contradiction of the Austrian report with numerous IAEA reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IAEA, whose headquarters are in the Austrian capital, will in the coming days publish its own review of Iran\u2019s nuclear activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/iran-rails-at-austria-over-fake-intel-report-saying-tehran-is-seeking-nuclear-bomb\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the Austrian intelligence report issued to prepare the ground for U.S.\/Israeli air strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":46544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309552,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309551\/revisions\/309552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}