I’m becoming very skeptical about what I read. I’ve just read an article in SEED magazine which stated the U.S. funded Iranian nuclear development via a Russian proxy setup by the IPP in order to prevent nuclear proliferation.

Of course I was really intrigued because that’s a pretty huge goof if it were true. The article referenced a 2008 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published in January so I looked for myself.

A PDF of the GAO report can be downloaded here but no mention of Iran was made. I also checked a few other reports by the GAO on the IPP just to make sure the didn’t get the dates wrong but still nada.

I wrote SEED an email about the story to see if I can get more information. Hopefully they’ll be nice and respond. The moral of the story is that you can’t always trust what you read, hear, or see.

Click here to read the original SEED article online