Germany’s Secret History Of Nuclear Assistance To Iran

By: Ron Jager

One can only imagine the anxiety and stress everyone would have felt if a warning blast coincided with the memorial sirens on Holocaust Remembrance Day or Memorial Day, after having endured the constant blaring of Israel’s sirens alerting people to the threat of Iranian missiles.

The common denominator between the Holocaust and the Iranian missile attack on Israel, is Germany’s intentional involvement and compliance. Nazi Germany’s responsibility for implementing the Holocaust is an undisputable historical fact. Yet, few associate Iran’s current nuclear program with Germany, a nation responsible for annihilating six million Jews during the Holocaust.

Not only did Germany play a key role in the development of Iran’s nuclear program decades ago by creating their infrastructure and providing German nuclear technology, training, components, and machinery, they also supplied specialized equipment, such as high-strength aluminum vacuum pumps, numerically-controlled machine tools, and frequency Converters: critical components for thousands of Iran’s centrifugal machines. This transfer of German technology has over the years enabled Iran to advance and transform its nuclear weapons industry to weapons grade enrichment, posing a threat to Israel and the entire world.

Iran has relied on German nuclear technology to enrich and produce weapons-grade uranium, which has enabled a nuclear threshold capacity. Iranian leaders, confident that their advanced nuclear weapons industry would deter external attempts to prevent their nuclear ambitions, interpreted the West’s inaction to apathy, which enabled the Mullahs to spread their tentacles of Islamic terror through proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Iran’s existing constitution, formed in 1979 and amended in 1989, outlines a vision that is fully incompatible with Western principles and has guided the Islamic leaders of Iran throughout its 47-year existence. Essentially, they seek a one-world Islamic government derived from Koranic principles and Sharia law. To this end, they support revolutionaries across the world, such as Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Islamic terror cells throughout Europe. Iran’s unquenchable appetite for nuclear weapons is a fundamental part of spreading Islamic terrorism across the globe.

Iran’s Islamic leaders have used their sense of self-proclaimed Aryan superiority to demand parity with Europe and separate Iran from the perceived backwardness of the Islamic Sunni world. Believing in the Aryan kinship of Iranians, German Orientalists and cultural emissaries introduced this Aryan myth into Iran in the first half of the 20th century. According to this myth, Iranians were part of the Aryan race and were thwarted from their glory by miscegenation with Semites (Jews and Sunni Arabs). Erwin Ettel, German ambassador to Iran from 1939 to 1941, emphasized the Aryan theme in his “general guidelines for propaganda to Iran” while he also insisted that “Germany’s battle against World Judaism” should also be directed “against the Jews in Iran, who want to force the Aryan Iranian people under their yoke.” It is remarkable that terms like “Aryan” have fallen into disuse in the West since they are a fundamental component of modern Iranian political thinking among Iranian leaders.

Since 1952, when diplomatic relations were established between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Iranian Islamic Republic, relations were close and resulted in numerous technological, cultural, and industrial bilateral agreements. However, the volume of trade has decreased significantly in recent years as a result of the sanctions against Iran, primarily from the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the sanctions unilaterally imposed by the United States. Nevertheless, there is still considerable interest in bilateral cultural and academic exchanges between the two countries. One can only conclude that had Germany not been forced to end their close bilateral relations with Iran due to American sanctions, not only Israel but the entire Western world would be under the existential threat posed by Iran. n

Ron Jager grew up in the South Bronx of New York City, making Aliyah in 1980. He served for 25 years in the IDF as a Mental Health Field Officer in operational units. Prior to retiring, he was Commander of the Central Psychiatric Clinic for Reserve Solders at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring, he has been involved in strategic consultancy to NGOs and communities in the Gaza Envelope on resiliency projects to assist first responders and communities. Ron has written numerous articles for outlets in Israel and abroad focusing on Israel and the Jewish world. To contact: [email protected] or visit his website: www.ronjager.com.