Project Amad

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Project Amad is an undercover and allegedly ongoing Iranian research project aimed at developing a functioning nuclear warhead. On April 30, 2018, the project was unveiled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . US President Donald Trump said this was a factor in deciding whether to step out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran) deal on May 12 .

According to Netanyahu, a larger archive was moved to a secret location in Tehran , and Israeli intelligence services allegedly obtained 55,000 pages of documents and an equal number of files on 183 CD-ROMs from this archive a few weeks before the presentation . Many of the documents that Netanyahu showed during this presentation date from 1999 to 2003.

Details about the Amad project were already mentioned in an IAEA report from 2015, and the agreement to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons program did not enter into force until the following year. Without mentioning Netanyahu and his presentation, the IAEA confirmed through its press spokesman on May 1 that it had received no credible evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program after 2009.

See also

literature

  • Michele Gaietta: The Launch of the AMAD Plan - The Trajectory of Iran's Nuclear Program . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-50825-6 , p. 141.
  • Anthony H. Cordesman, Bryan Gold: The Gulf Military Balance: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions . Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-2794-1 , p. 95.
  • IDR . In: Jane's International Defense Review , Vol. 41, 2008, p. 33, Jane's Information Group.
  • Farhad Rezaei: Iran's Nuclear Program: A Study in Proliferation and Rollback . Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-44120-7 , p. 181.
  • Joseph F. Pilat, Nathan E. Busch: Routledge Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy . Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-136-01248-8 , pp. 48-49.
  • Olli Heinonen: The Verification of the Peaceful Nature of Iran's Nuclear Program - Assessment of the Nuclear Programs of Iran and North Korea . Springer, Dordrecht, 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-6018-9 , pp. 91-98, doi: 10.1007 / 978-94-007-6019-6_7 .
  • Farhad Rezaei, Somayeh Khodaei Moshirabad: The Revolutionary Guards: from spoiler to accepter of the nuclear agreement . In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies , 2018, Vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 138–155, doi: 10.1080 / 13530194.2016.1214817 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netanyahu: Documents prove Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons . Welt Online , April 30, 2018; accessed May 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Netanyahu's Bizarre PowerPoint Presentation on Iran. April 30, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Final Assessment on Past and Present Outstanding Issues regarding Iran's Nuclear Program. (PDF) December 2, 2015, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  4. ^ Statement on Iran by the IAEA Spokesperson. May 1, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018 .