{"id":26104,"date":"2012-09-24T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=26104"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:46","slug":"german-company-siemens-denies-iran-nuclear-sabotage-plot-iran-nuclear-news-26104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/german-company-siemens-denies-iran-nuclear-sabotage-plot-iran-nuclear-news-26104\/","title":{"rendered":"German company Siemens Denies Iran Nuclear Sabotage Plot \/ Iran Nuclear News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian technicians walk outside the building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

German engineering firm Siemens has dismissed claims it supplied Iran with equipment for its nuclear programme that had been sabaotaged with explosives.<\/h1>\n

Aladin Borujerdi, a prominent MP and chair of the parliamentary national security and foreign policy commission, told the Iraninan parliament’s ICANA news website that the country’s intelligence agencies had foiled the alleged plot.<\/p>\n

“Intelligence-security apparatus succeeded in discovering explosives in equipment which were provided to us for our nuclear activities,” he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

“The explosives were to blow up when activated to disrupt the whole system. Domestic experts nullified the plot of the enemy, however.<\/p>\n

“The company Siemens, which provided this equipment, must answer for its action.”<\/p>\n

But the German company, which was building a nuclear power station in Iran before the Islamic revolution in 1979, said it had not been involved in any deals in the country and had no knowledge of the plot.<\/p>\n

“Siemens does not have any business ties with Iran’s nuclear programme and does not supply any technical equipment for it,” a spokesman for the Munich-based multinational said.<\/p>\n

Any sale of nuclear equipment to Iran is banned under UN sanctions.<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic has suffered the assassination of four of its nuclear scientists in the past two years, attacks it has blamed on Israel, the US and Britain.<\/p>\n

It also claims it has been targeted through the sale of faulty equipment and the planting of a destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet, which briefly brought Iran’s uranium enrichment activity to a halt in 2010.<\/p>\n

Iran’s nuclear chief, Fereidoun Abbasi, said on Monday that separate attacks on Iran’s centrifuges – through tiny explosives meant to disable key parts of the machines – were discovered before the blasts could go off on timers.<\/p>\n

He also told the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna that “terrorists and saboteurs” might have infiltrated the UN watchdog, while Javad Jahangirzadeh, a senior parliamentarian, accused it of passing confidential information about Iran’s nuclear activities to Israel.<\/p>\n

Tehran maintains the nuclear programme is for the peaceful production of electricity, but Western powers accuse it of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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