(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - Iran has formed a top secret team of nuclear specialists to infiltrate the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN-sponsored body that monitors its nuclear program. Its target is the IAEA's safeguards division and its aim is to obtain information on the work of IAEA inspectors so that Iran can conceal the more sensitive areas of its nuclear research, according to information recently received by Western intelligence. The operation is being run by Hosein Afarideh, former head of the Iranian parliament's energy committee, who heads a three-man team at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran in Teheran to prevent more embarrassing disclosures about its nuclear facilities.
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