TEHRAN- In an interview with Germany’s Deutsche Welle, former IAEA inspector Robert Kelly says allegations that Iran was engaged in covert nuclear weapons research are “incredible,”, the anti-war reported on Friday.

Kelly said the allegations came primarily from Israel and the United States.

There were myriad accusations, but little proof, let alone information on where the claims even came from in the first place, he noted.

Kelly in particular objected to the IAEA probe into industrial explosives, including the “exploding-bridgewire detonators,” and mocked the allegation that they have “very few other uses besides nuclear weapons.”

He added millions of such detonators are manufactured annually and the IAEA “got it exactly wrong.”

He described the allegations as an attempted “poison pill”, saying such attempts are intended to derail the negotiations.

Some of the allegations are designed to be unresolvable by the IAEA, so they will always have the excuse that some of the allegations weren’t resolved.

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