FoxNews:
BERLIN – Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report that followed a similar finding the Islamic Republic sought nuclear materials.
The revelation, in a report by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate’s intelligence agency, found the Islamic Republic’s operatives targeted German companies whose equipment could be “implemented for atomic, biological and chemical weapons in a war.”
“These goods could, for example, be applied to the development of state nuclear and missile delivery programs,” said the intelligence experts.
Another passage in the document notes that, “special attention was paid in the report’s time period to proliferation-relevant activities of Iran, Pakistan and North Korea.”
Just last week, FoxNews.com reported that Germany’s Federal intelligence agency revealed in its annual report that Iran has a “clandestine” effort to seek illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.”
The local intelligence agencies are comparable to regional FBI offices.
