Tehran - Saba:
Mahmoud Nabavian, deputy chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Iranian authorities had discovered suspicious spy chips in the shoes of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors.
Fars News Agency quoted Nabavian as saying on Saturday, regarding the IAEA's performance: "The agency's agents are definitely spies; we don't want to raise slogans; this is a fact."
Referring to the method of identifying some Iranian nuclear facilities, he said: "How do they know, for example, that we have nuclear facilities in Natanz? They usually find out either through satellites owned by the United States or through security services."
Nabavian added: "We ask Grossi, you now have allegations about three of our sites that you say have not been resolved. Is it just that Israel gave you information about these centers? Israel stole documents from us and gave them to you, but why are you listening to Israel? Is Israel a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? That's why we say you are spying."
Nabavian also referred to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence's acquisition of secret Israeli documents, saying, "The second very interesting point is that our Ministry of Intelligence went and brought ten million documents from Israel. It is interesting to know that, as members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we are required to submit our reports to the IAEA, but Grossi submitted our reports to the IAEA to Israel! And these reports are among the same documents we went and brought from there. When we say there is espionage, we say so with evidence."
He also mentioned some of the actions of IAEA officials during inspections, saying, "The next point is, why do IAEA inspectors come to our nuclear facilities and physically search them, and are microchips found in their shoes? Where are they monitoring them?"
Nabavian continued, "They now say that all our basic information and statistics were provided to them by Grossi. The IAEA provides the information anyway."
Nabavian emphasized, "I remember in the past, when we submitted secret reports to the IAEA, before they were discussed within the IAEA, the information was published in the newspapers." This is while publishing this information is prohibited and the agency must be held accountable. Zionist and American newspapers publish our information. We have only requested that this behavior be stopped."