Iran Aims to Expand WMD Program, German Intel Agency Concludes

Iran sought to produce and source weapons of mass destruction as recently as 2020, efforts that are likely ongoing, according to a new intelligence report issued by a German government security agency.

Iran is working to expand its "Conventional arsenal of weapons through the production or constant modernization of weapons of mass destruction," according to a German-language report issued last week by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a state security agency equivalent to the FBI. The report, which covers the year 2020 and was independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon, provides the firmest evidence to date that Iran is misleading the world about the nature of its nuclear program.

As the Biden administration works to reenter the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and unwind tough economic sanctions on the country, Tehran continues to claim that its nuclear program is peaceful in nature.

The findings contained in the German intel report directly refute claims by Iran's leaders that the country has no interest in building a nuclear bomb.

"In order to obtain the necessary know-how and corresponding components," Iran sought to establish business contacts with German companies operating in the high-tech field, according to the report's section on proliferation.

The German report additionally found that Iran is waging sophisticated espionage activities in the country.

Benjamin Weinthal, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the German intelligence agency's findings reinforce "What has been revealed in scores of German intelligence reports each year after the woefully inadequate Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015: Iran's regime continues to seek technology for its goal to build a nuclear weapons device and expand its conventional missile arsenal."
 

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