{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"EXCLUSIVE: Iran\u2019s Black Market Nuclear Warheads Are an Open Secret","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article85229.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article85229.html'\u003EEXCLUSIVE: Iran\u2019s Black Market Nuclear Warheads Are an Open Secret\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn March 21, 2008, this author was among a group of Foreign Service officers and diplomats who received a briefing at the State Department on Iran.  The Department\u2019s Middle East expert, under questioning by this author, told the group that it was \u201ccommon knowledge\u201d in the region that Iran had acquired tactical nuclear weapons from one or more of the former Soviet Republics.   Using the vague term \u201ccommon knowledge\u201d allowed the expert to discuss the information in an unclassified (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}