June 7, 1981
Attack on the Iraqi Nuclear Research Centre, 7 June 1981: Statement by the Director General
After the raid Israel initiated a PR campaign, explaining its reasoning behind the attack. Following this campaign, the second causality of the raid, in addition to Iraq’s reactor, was the credibility of the IAEA. And its officials staged their own counter campaign.
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