Dos inspectores de la ONU nucleares patrocinadas estaban en un coche, en su camino hacia un reactor iraní dice que se utiliza para producir isótopos para la investigación médica. Los dos expertos estaban en una misión en las proximidades del Complejo Khandab en la provincia Markazi de Irán cuando el coche patinó y volcó. Uno de los inspectores de Corea del Sur fue asesinado. El segundo inspector, de Eslovaquia, sólo resultó herido. El accidente ocurrió alrededor del mediodía, justo antes de una reunión prevista entre funcionarios iraníes y los inspectores de la OIEA. Irán afirma que el "accidente" la víctima no llevaba puesto el cinturón de seguridad.

Ha habido preocupación por el inspector de Corea del Sur está muerto porque Corea del Norte está en contra de las potencias occidentales y es un jugador importante con Irán en sus aspiraciones nucleares.

Israel and the United States hold the opinion that fuel from the Khandab Complex reactors is being processed to make a nuclear weapon, most likely a warhead for a missile aimed at Israel. Iran has been accused of “buying time,” stalling United Nations inspectors and creating obstacles at every turn toward anyone who wants to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities, which have been producing enriched uranium at a 20 % grade.

Recent reports indicated that President Obama is ready to make big concessions on Iran’s uranium enrichment. Reports indicate that the U.S. administration is willing to allow 5% enrichment if Iran is willing to take steps toward not creating a nuclear bomb.

The Gulf Arab states, along with Israel, the United States and their European allies believe that Iran is conducting nuclear experiments that have military applications, not making peaceful electricity or isotopes for medical usage, as Iran continues to claim.

Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak says, “I believe it is well understood in Washington, D.C., as well as in Jerusalem that as long as there is an existential threat to our people, all options to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons should remain on the table. I have enough experience to know that a military option is not a simple one,” Barak added. “It would be complicated with certain associated risks. But a radical Islamic Republic of Iran with nuclear weapons would be far more dangerous both for the region and, en efecto, the world.”

The United States is now concerned that the new coalition government of Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party’s unity with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could result in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities at any given moment, even before the U.S. elections in November as the clock on the wall goes tick-tock, tick-tock.