Iran using third countries and front companies to acquire WMD technology, says intelligence agency of Germany’s Hesse state.
Iran and other rogue states are covertly working to acquire German technology for making nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, Germany’s prominent intelligence agency confirmed on Friday. Tehran was using front companies to deceive German firms into selling dual-use equipment and sanctioned WMD technology, the intelligence service of Germany’s Hesse state disclosed in its annual report.
Iranian and other front “trading companies mislead the seller that the actual purchase is being made by a state-run company,” report said while explaining the modus operandi. Iran, along with North Korea, Pakistan, and Iranian ally Syria, were using third-party buyers to build up their nuclear and WMD capabilities.
Iranian exchange students and academic institutions are used by their military and intelligence services to obtain technology for its nuclear program. Iranian researchers working in Germany are being instrumentalized by the regime to acquire centrifugal technology used for uranium enrichment, as well as bio-chemical know-how for the purposes of weaponization, said the 387-page report reviewed by the LegalInsurrection.
“Universities in the respective countries are used as recipients in order to hide the end customer” and visiting researches are “coerced” by the Iranian and other spy agencies to “acquired the required [WMD] know-how,” the assessment said.
This article was sourced from LegalInsurrection
