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UN nuclear watchdog chief said to receive 24/7 security detail due to Iranian threat
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The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has been guarded by a 24/7 security detail in recent weeks due to a specific Iranian threat against him, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
The report says that Rafael Grossi is being protected by the elite Cobra special services unit in Austria, where the International Atomic Energy Agency is based. The security attachment was reportedly assigned to him in late June after Austrian intelligence was given intelligence about a threat to Grossi from an unidentified third party in the wake of the Israel-Iran war.
“We can confirm that Austria provided a Cobra unit but we cannot confirm where the specific threat came from,” Fredrik Dahl, an IAEA spokesman, tells the Wall Street Journal in response.
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