In an interview with CNN’s chief correspondent Cristiane Amanpour today, available on her podcast, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said that his agency has “no proof” that Iran has been developing a nuclear bomb.
The claim, of course, that Iran has a bomb, or can have one in hours, is repeatedly made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, used as a justification for his barbaric attack on Iran on June 13, and now President Donald Trump has parroted the same line, implying that it is a reason for the U.S. to join with Israel in militarily attacking Iran.
Grossi’s statements made to Amanpour have spread like wildfire across international media. As quoted today by The Cradle, in “IAEA Chief Confirms Agency Has ‘No Proof’ Iran Building Nuclear Bomb”, Grossi told Amanpour that “what we reported was that we did not have … any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.”
