Four arrests in Iran valve probe

German police have arrested four men suspected of delivering valves for a heavy water reactor to Iran, breaking an embargo on such exports imposed over the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear programme.

Prosecutors said some 90 customs officers arrested the men, a German and three with dual German-Iranian citizenship, at their homes in the northern cities of Hamburg and Oldenburg and the eastern town of Weimar, and searched flats and offices.

“They are believed to have helped in the delivery of valves in breach of sanctions,” prosecutors said.

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