Report: Turkey intercepts material for missiles, chemical weapons on Iranian trucks
Turkish newspaper 'Taraf' reports Turkish authorities stopped four trucks two weeks ago; IAEA asks Turkey for report on contents of the trucks.
By Zvi Bar'el Tags: Iran Syria Turkey IAEAMaterial for manufacturing missiles and chemical weapons has been discovered by the Turkish authorities on Iranian trucks heading to Turkey, Turkish media reported on Friday.
The Turkish newspaper “Taraf” reported that Turkish authorities, who stopped the trucks two weeks ago at customs, had found material on board the trucks which could be used for manufacturing missiles and chemical weapons.
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An IDF soldier carrying one of the 120mm mortar shells that were seized from the Victoria cargo ship last April. |
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Turkish customs officials intercepted the four trucks on suspecion of carrying military equipment from Iran to Syria earlier this month.
The governor of Kilis province in Turkey said the trucks were confiscated at the Oncupinar border crossing into Syria after police received information about their cargo, according to Dogan news agency.
One of the trucks was carrying six six-meter long cylinders, and the remaining three were carrying 66 tons of sodium sulphate, that could be used for manufacturing chemical missiles.
Turkey sent a team of experts to examine the content of the trucks, and UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, requested a report on the contents from the Turkish authorities, the newspaper said.
According to the cargo documents, the material belongs to an Iranian tannery company, but it is believed that this is a cover, and the cargo is intended for chemical weapons production.
This is not the first Iranian delivery of weapons material that the Turkish authorities intercepted by the Turkish authorities. In August and March of last year, the authorities found a delivery of light weapons on planes that had arrived from Iran, and in September Turkey stopped a ship delivering cargo from Iran to Syria, without reporting what was on board the ship.
In the past, Turkey has agreed to intercept deliveries of cargo from Iran on based on foreign intelligence sources, including from Israel.
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... but these weapons will only end up expediting his demise and his ghastly frozen end in an extra long block of common butcher's ice.
Israel should not and will not wait until these lunatics will have the bomb. What most of your fact less ignorant statements forget is the fact that Iran promise to wipe Israel off the Map a small fact that all of you Israel/Jewish haters forget. Israel never threatened anyone to be wiped of the map. Israel will act at it best interest and will not wait for anyone permission to stop the next holocaust because some everyone is so afraid of these prehistoric lunatics with weapon from 1960’s. Israel will stand 10,000 rockets with ease, the question if is Lebanon, Gaza, Iran and Syria can stand the mighty Israel Army with the technology that you guys saw only in the movies. You all are probably too young to remember all the threats made in the past 65 years against Israel by the 100 Million Arabs surrounding it and now with an additional 150 Million with Iran and Turkey, well Israel survive and the Egyptian and Jordanian figured out that they better do a cold peace with Israel rather than continue with futile fight that they will never win. Syria learn that if you attack Israel once again, Israel will take over Damascus, thus set quietly for 30 plus years, Iraq learn that Israel can reach anyone anywhere that threatening its way of life and the terrorists that hurts Israel in the past 65 years know that Israel never forget and will always pay back for killing its people no matter how long it takes. Never under estimate the State of Israel, the only real democracy in the Middle East that does not kill its own people.
those who are afraid of iran have never faced fear. if they are afraid to confront iran today, just wait till they get nuclear arms.
Taraf means literally "the side" in Turkish. TARAF newspaper in Turkey is what Kayhan is in Iran. So they can fabricate all sorts of stuff, they would score zero in terms of the journalistic standards.
Why Iran/Syria/Hezbollah would risk trying to sneak something through the heavily watched/gaurded Turkish border, especially considering Erdogan/Assad current relationship? Iraq/Syria border is twice as long, with no military presence, why wouldn't they just send weapons through Iraq ?
Crazy propaganda = making chemical missiles with sodium sulphate. "Could be used" what a joke. Israeli media is becoming more and more insane with its Iran propaganda. Sodium sulphate is a widely used industrial chemical. It is needed in textile manufacturing, making glass and wood pulp ETC.