Persecutions, immigrants and inflatable boats: how did the rescue operation of an Iranian nuclear scientist and his transfer to the United Kingdom take place?

An Iranian scientist from the Persian nuclear program who was seeking desertion was rescued from Tehran and taken to the UK.n a cinematic escape involving long pbadages by land and sea and the participation of the intelligence services of three countries, according to the British press published Sunday.

The 47-year-old man sensitive information about Iran's nuclear developments and their possible military use, an issue that has left the international community unresolved for decades and has raised new concerns in recent years, leading US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the agreement signed with Iran in 2015.

It is thought that the scientist had links for years with Western countries and that he contributed to the badbadination plan in 2012 of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, one of the leaders of the Iranian nuclear program for military purposes, whose author is still unknown.

The extraction plan was designed in October and in its first phase, it was the illegal exit of the deserter from Iran to neighboring Turkey. According to the British newspaper Daily mail, the Israeli Mossad took over this first step in December 2018, thoroughly questioned the deserter and he then forwarded it to MI6, the British intelligence service.

From there, it is the task of this agency bring the scientist to cross Europe by land, about 4,800 kilometers, up to the French city of Calais, just above the English Channel.

It was not an easy crossing. "There were challenges. His absence was noted quickly and we learned that a special unit of the guards of the Iranian revolution had been sent to his search ", noted a British source at the newspaper Sunday Express.

Then, They made an incredible decision.

"We could not fly it there, though unusual, It was determined that he would be infiltrated by a group of immigrants preparing to cross the Channel by inflatable boat."The source told the agent to Sunday Express.

It is usual for immigrants who, since 2015, constantly arrive all over the European continent to go to Calais, from where they then try to reach the United Kingdom. And this is how the scientist was mixed with a group of 12 people of the same nationality and crossed the English Channel to land at Lydd, in the south of England. The intention was to reach Dover, the closest point between England and France, but the currents resulted in the boat some fifty kilometers to the west.

The MI6 questioned the defector shortly after his arrival in the British Isles and he did so quickly. since it was not his final destination. According to the source of Sunday Express, The man "badured that Iran continues to respect the commitments of the nuclear agreement".

That's when the American CIA enters the equation, and it is believed that at that time, the man could have already arrived in the United States or be in transit. In this country, he will be questioned again before becoming a political asylum.