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| Germany charges four over Iran nuclear equipment sales |
| 2013-04-30 |
| [Al Ahram] German prosecutors said Monday they had charged four men with breaching sanctions against Iran by delivering equipment for an atomic reactor that the West suspects is part of a covert nuclear weapons programme. Three men with joint Iranian-German nationality, identified only as Kianzad Ka., Gholamali Ka. and Hamid Kh., and German national Rudolf M. were jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! last August in police raids involving 90 officers. They were charged last Friday in a Hamburg court, prosecutors said. The four are accused of having delivered special valves for a heavy water reactor in 2010 and 2011, in breach of an arms embargo and export restrictions against Iran on goods that have dual civil and military purposes. |
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