Israel uncovers secret Iranian project to fuel cars using poppy seeds

Israeli military analysts have discovered that Iranian scientists have been working on a new form of plant-based car fuel that has been described as “revolutionary”.

Leading Israeli environmentalist Mordechai Nathansky said the invention could transform transport across the world. Included among the documents seized by Israel from a warehouse in Tehran in April 2018 was a small folder labelled “Tasch”.

The Israeli analysts had ignored the documents, considering they had no connection to Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme.

But by chance, one of the analysts, physicist Esther Hamanstein, opened the folder and was astonished by what she saw.