Political circles in Israel leaked a confidential intelligence report accusing Turkey of selling electronic equipment to Iran, by the time efforts are being made behind the scenes to identify the diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel and to prevent its expansion.
The report is a letter sent by Israeli government to the United Nations, lately, requesting an investigation into "the arrival of sophisticated electronic products in Iran, contrary to UN Security Council resolutions that imposed restrictions on Iranian armament."
The letter said that suspicions revolve around Turkey for allegedly selling electronic equipment to Iran that appears on the list of banned materials for export to the Iran under UN Security Council Resolution 2231 of 2015, prohibiting transfer to Iran of nuclear-related products and technologies.
The UN also contacted Israel seeking it open its own inquiry into the matter after it discovered the equipment sold by Turkey to Iran was manufactured by a Jerusalem-based Israeli company, considered a major manufacturer of electronic capacitors.
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) led to the investigation being opened after it intercepted a shipment of electronics sent by Turkey to Iran in July, 2017, according to sources.
The UAE's security apparatus noticed the shipment contained the aforementioned capacitors.
In the written missive sent to Israel, the UN's Secretariat noted that the electronic items were made by an Israeli company called Celem Power Capacitors, headquartered in Jerusalem.
The contraband shipment contained CSP 180/300 model capacitors manufactured by the Israeli company.
"We'll be grateful if your government can provide pertinent information on the matter forthwith," the Secretariat's letter said.
The company further maintained that it had no notion of the capacitors being sent on to Iran.
"We will cooperate with any inquiry," Celem's statement said. "We'll prove we sold them to an orderly Turkish company. We don't do business with enemy states."
"While most of our sales are to Europe and the US, Turkey is not an enemy state and there's no reason not to trade with it. In any event, if the shipment did find its way to Iran, the Turkish buyer misled us," the statement concluded.
