Intelligence agents from Britain, the United States and Israel helped smuggle an Iranian nuclear scientist out of Tehran to Britain with information concerning the Revolutionary Guards’ nuclear program as part of a joint operation, Israel National News reported.
In reports attributed to British media, the report said, British intelligence agents reportedly used the immigrant crisis to smuggle the scientist in a dinghy.
According to The Sunday Express newspaper, the nuclear scientist had been a Western asset for years and had helped plan the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a fellow nuclear scientist who died in a 2012 Tehran car explosion.
The scientist, 47, hid among Iranian immigrants in a boat that crossed the Channel. The engineer arrived in Kent, England, along with 12 other immigrants, the report said. The operation involved MI6, Mossad and the CIA.
Britain, Israel International News reported, sought to conceal its involvement in the operation because it opposed the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement and remained party to it.
The Express newspaper, quoted a source who said: "This wasn't without its challenges,” adding ”His absence was noted quickly and we were informed that a special unit of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had been dispatched.”
"Once in France the question of how to get him into Britain remained,” the report continued, "We couldn't simply fly him in.”
"Though unusual, it was determined infiltrating him into a group of fellow migrants preparing to cross the Channel by boat offered one solution."
“The scientist wanted to reach Britain and then take off for the United States,” the report concluded. “To this end he crossed Europe and passed through Greece, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, and France. In France he boarded an immigrant boat in which he arrived in Britain on New Year's Eve.”
– WN.com, Jack Durschlag
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AP / Renata Brito
