“The leak’s principal impact, a European diplomat told The Guardian, was that it compromised the UN nuclear watchdog’s ongoing investigation. Despite increasingly heated rhetoric from Tel Aviv and Washington, the international community still lacks evidence that Iran has been working on nuclear weapons since 2003. However, the IAEA’s publication of summary intelligence on an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program helped the US and EU to impose a new round of sanctions against Tehran. Now, the ‘amateurish hoax’ is said to threaten the position of the IAEA’s inspectors.”
