Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi on Saturday accused German company Siemens of sabotaging its nuclear program, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported.According to the news agency, citing Boroujerdi, Iranian security experts discovered small explosives embedded in equipment Tehran bought from Siemens for its nuclear program. DPA quoted Borojerdi as claiming, "the equipment was supposed to blow up after installation in order to destroy our [nuclear] systems."
Siemens immediately dismissed the allegations, with DPA quoting company spokesman Alexander Machowetz as saying, "we have no business dealings related to the Iranian nuclear program."
The United Nations has banned the sale of nuclear-related equipment to Iran.
| Iranian security experts discovered small explosives embedded in equipment Tehran bought from Siemens for its nuclear program. |
Abbasi-Davani also told the annual member state gathering of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that "the same act" had been carried out on power lines to Iran's main uranium enrichment plant near the central town of Natanz, without giving a date.
He concluded by accusing the IAEA of a cynical approach and mismanagement and suggested that "terrorists and saboteurs" might have infiltrated it.
Iran has previously accused Israel and the West of being behind the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists and of trying to damage its nuclear program in other ways, such as cyber attacks.