New York Times: In an interview with Al Hayat, a pan-Arab newspaper in the UK, Fereydoon Abbasi said that Iran had issued false information about its nuclear program. Abbasi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, claimed the subterfuge was in response to international espionage, but he did not reveal to whom the information was given or what it was. Iran’s nuclear program is the focus of significant diplomatic conflict because Israel, the US, and other Western nations believe Iran is attempting to build nuclear weapons. Iran has repeatedly refused the International Atomic Energy Agency’s demands to inspect the nation’s nuclear facilities, and many Iranian facilities and scientists appear to have been targeted for sabotage and assassination.