This is the second time in two weeks that the IAEA’s internal computer systems have been hacked by a group calling itself Parastoo, which is the Iranian word for a swallow (bird).

Parastoo stole the personal information of nearly 200 IAEA scientists and officials last week, including one employee in the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. DOE is responsible for overseeing America’s nuclear arsenal.

Parastoo now claims to have pilfered reams of documents and personnel information from the nuclear watchdog’s internal “nuclear data section,” according to a statement by the group.

It also has obtained “highly sensitive information, Including Confidential ‘SafeGuard’ Documents, Satellite Images, Official letters, [and] Presentations,” according to the statement.

The hacker group has threatened to release this sensitive information unless the IAEA launches a formal investigation into Israel’s nuclear site, which some believe houses nuclear arms.

“We are demanding IAEA to start an INVESTIGATION into activities at Israel’s secret nuclear facilities,” the group wrote in its second public statement. “There are many PARASTOOs in the world, seeking for an investigation into Israel’s Human-Life threatening nuclear activities.”

The IAEA did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment about the second infiltration of its servers.

Yukiya Amano, the United Nations’ nuclear head, said last week that he did not believe sensitive nuclear safeguards have been comprised as a result of Parastoo’s initial attack, according to Reuters.

Parastoo responded to this charge by launching a second attack last week aimed at penetrating further into the IAEA’s systems, this time its “nuclear data section.”

“We’re now publishing additional information to prove our ability to gain access to highly sensitive information,” Parastoo wrote in its statement.

“IAEA cannot just keep us away by turning off their Servers (either old or new ones!),” the group wrote. “There are plenty more of where this information came from but we guarantee that these information will stay in a very safe place with us.”

Parastoo has said that it will safeguard this information as long as the IAEA agrees to investigate Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center located near the southern city of Dimona. Israel has not publicly acknowledged having nuclear arms.

Parastoo’s demand appears to be in response to the IAEA’s aggressive investigation into Iran’s clandestine nuclear enrichment program, which is believed to be aimed at building nuclear weapons.

“This information only released to open eyes of IAEA and independent media to real threat of world peace, Israel,” the group states. “Our intentions are not to sabotage or misuse such data for any purposes what so ever.”

Included in the group’s statement is a link to the IAEA’s internal “nuclear data section.” The information, which includes critical technical information needed to acquire access to the system, is meant to prove that Parastoo’s claims are legitimate.

Additionally, Parastoo claims to have at least 15 portions of the IAEA’s system under its control and it lists this information for the public to view.

The group also provides a sample of several documents and satellite images it has seized from the IAEA and lists the email addresses of additional employees.

Parastoo is highly critical of Israel, accusing it of espionage and terrorism in past statements.

Both the language and political positions adopted by Parastoo are similar to dispatches from Anonymous, an anarchic collective of “hacktivists” who engage in cyber-attacks against targets it finds objectionable.

Anonymous recently threatened to launch a “cyber war” against Israel in response to its most recent incursion into the Gaza Strip. It then leaked the personal information of nearly 5,000 Israeli officials.

Details regarding Parastoo’s specific location remain vague.

The group was not publicly known before its first attack and claims to have “many” members likely scattered in various locations.

Hackers claim to have seized the information of nearly 200 scientists and officials affiliated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world’s chief nuclear watchdog, according to a message posted Sunday on the website Cryptome.

A new hacker group calling itself Parastoo posted numerous email addresses purportedly found within the IAEA’s internal computer systems.

Parastoo is threatening to post personal information associated with these scientists and other personnel unless immediate action is taken by the IAEA to investigate Israel’s nuclear power plant, which some believe houses nuclear arms.

The effort appears to be in response to the IAEA’s aggressive investigation into Iran’s nuclear enrichment activity, which critics claim Iran is undertaking in pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“We are reassuring IAEA that their critical information is safe with us as we are brothers, however, we can not guarantee the same if a Western-favored element entertains another sip of motorbike & magnetbomb [sic] cocktail,” the hacker group said in a statement, referring to assassination operations believed to be carried out by Israel against Iranian nuclear scientists.

An IAEA spokesperson said that the organization is “not giving any on-record comment on this right now.”

The leaked email addresses are associated with various academics and government officials across the globe, including one employee in the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Neither a DOE spokesperson nor the U.S. Mission to the IAEA responded to a Free Beacon request for comment about the incident.

Parastoo, which claims to be posting its “first public message,” is demanding that the IAEA investigate Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center located near the southern city of Dimona.

Dubbing the site “beyond-harmful,” Parastoo instructs that the individuals listed “sign a petition demanding an open IAEA investigation into activities at Dimona,” according to the message.

“The above list who technically help IAEA could be considered a partner in crime should an accident happen there,” the message continues. “In such case, many people would like to at least ask some questions, and Parastoo will publish whereabouts of every single one of these individuals alongside with bits of helpful personal and professional details.”

The group is highly critical of Israel, accusing the Jewish state of terrorism and espionage.

“Israel owns a practical nuclear arsenal, tied to a growing military body and it is not a member of international respected nuclear, biochemical and chemical agreements,” the group states.

The group alleges that Israel has “a history of attacking U.S. properties, Arab countries and assassination episodes of all stripes,” according to the message.

Parastoo then delivers a warning: “You are not anonymous. Expect us.”

The language used by Parastoo is similar to dispatches from Anonymous, an anarchic collective of “hacktivists” who engage in cyber-attacks against targets it finds objectionable.

Anonymous has also come out against Israel, criticizing its treatment of the Palestinians.

The hacker group threatened to launch a “cyber war” against Israel earlier this month in response to its most recent incursion into the Gaza Strip.

“Israeli Gov, this is your cyberwar [sic],” Anonymous said in a message posted on an Internet message board. “November 2012 will be a month to remember for the Israeli defense forces and Internet security forces.”

It also leaked the personal information of 5,000 Israeli officials.

Israel’s nuclear program is highly secretive, and the country has not officially acknowledged having nuclear arms. It also has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an international agreement aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.

It remains unclear exactly from where Parastoo’s attack originates, but Iran itself has been known to launch cyber attacks.

“The Iranian regime is set up to maximize plausible deniability,” said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq who has written about Iranian-backed vigilante groups. “That’s what makes Iranian cells abroad so dangerous: They can think for themselves and act on their own, all in pursuit with the regime’s goals.”

“If anyone points the finger at Iran, the mullahs will shrug their shoulders, say ‘it wasn’t us’ and the CIA will testify there’s no smoking gun because they don’t have proof of direct orders,” Rubin said.

The hacker group Parastoo additionally promised in its dispatch to become a permanent presence in the hacker community.

“You will be hearing game changing news from us frequently from now on,” the group states.

Iran continues to build up stockpiles of enriched uranium and has failed to explain what the report described as possible “ongoing” nuclear warhead and explosives work, according to the internal report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

“Despite the intensified dialogue between the agency and Iran since January 2012, no concrete results have been achieved in resolving the outstanding issues,” the report states.

Iran’s failure to cooperate with international inspections led the IAEA to conclude, “The agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

The Aug. 30 IAEA report states that during the past six months, Iran produced an additional 679 kilograms of low-enriched uranium and about 44 kilograms more of 20 percent-enriched uranium—material experts say could be used to produce a crude nuclear bomb, or enriched to high levels for missile warheads.

The Iranians now have a stockpile of 6,876 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, and 189.4 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium.

The recent IAEA estimate of Iran’s nuclear stocks also shows a significant increase from a U.S. estimate made public in April that said the Iranians had 4,150 kilograms of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride and about 80 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium as of November 2011.

By comparison, the U.S. bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 used about 64 kilograms of 80 percent enriched uranium.

The new IAEA report comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, as well as concerns Israel could launch a preemptive attack on Iran prior to the November U.S. elections that could trigger a regional conflict.

It also comes as the Democratic National Committee platform, made public Tuesday, praised President Obama for using diplomacy in a bid to curb the Iranian nuclear program. Obama has said he will not permit Iran to develop nuclear weapons but has stopped short of threatening a military response.

Two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups are currently deployed in the region.

The IAEA report makes clear that Iran has not altered its defiant posture of refusing to halt uranium enrichment or explain past weapons work, as required by the IAEA.

Regarding Iran’s nuclear arms work, the latest report states: “Information indicates that, prior to the end of 2003, the activities took place under a structured program; that some continued after 2003, and that some may still be ongoing.”

That IAEA statement contradicts a controversial U.S. intelligence assessment from 2007 that said Iran halted all work on nuclear arms in 2003. The Obama administration continues to assert that Iran has not made a decision to build nuclear weapons despite the IAEA’s unanswered questions about weapon work.

The IAEA report also reveals for the first time that a suspected nuclear weapons plant at Parchin recently was covered in a shroud in an apparent effort to hide it from international satellite monitoring. The Parchin facility, a military complex located about 19 miles southeast of Tehran, has been linked to explosives experiments related to nuclear arms work.

Iran built a “large explosives containment vessel” at Parchin in 2000 and details of the site were first disclosed to the IAEA in March 2011, the report said.

Spy satellite photos showed little activity at Parchin between February 2005 and January 2012. “However, since the agency’s first request for access to this location, satellite imagery shows that extensive activities and resultant changes have taken place at this location,” the report said.

Specifically, spy satellite photos showed liquid run-off from inside the building where the explosives vessel is housed, and the removal of five structures at the site that analysts say appears to be effort to hide earlier activities.

“Satellite images from August 2012 show the containment vessel building shrouded,” the report said, noting that should IAEA inspectors eventually reach the site, inspections of past work will have been “significantly hampered.”

Iran stated in a letter to the IAEA on Aug. 29 that allegations of nuclear activities at Parchin are “baseless,” the report said.

The recent letter echoes repeated Iranian government statements that its nuclear program is limited to producing electrical power-generating reactors, and not for producing weapons, claims that are widely disputed internationally.

The report said that Iran in the past six months continued to ignore IAEA demands to halt work on uranium enrichment, as required under 11 IAEA resolutions between 2003 and 2011.

Iran also failed to provide any information to the IAEA on announced plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants. Tehran also refused to stop work on heavy water production, the report said.

The 14-page report was produced by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano for the agency’s board of governors. The Free Beacon obtained a copy of the document, which was labeled “restricted.”

Regarding the DNC platform, the Party document states that “President Obama, working closely with our international partners and Congress, has put in place unprecedented sanctions against Iran.”

It notes Iran has yet to build a nuclear bomb but has defied U.N. resolutions and “cannot demonstrate with any credibility that its program is peaceful.”

“President Obama believes that a diplomatic outcome remains the best and most enduring solution,” the platform said.

It also said Obama “has also made clear that the window for diplomacy will not remain open indefinitely and that all options—including military force—remain on the table.”

Henry Sokolski, head of the private Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, said the use of sanctions to stop Iran’s nuclear program is “a stretch.”

“Have international sanctions killed Iran’s nuclear weapons-related activities? No,” Sokolski said. “Are they needed to deprive the Iranian government of legitimacy? Yes. Can sanctions or bombing end Iran’s nuclear activities without a change of government? No.”

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Aug. 10 that sanctions on Iran are meant to alter the regime’s behavior and prod it into abiding by international controls on its nuclear program.

Carney said Iran has failed “thus far, to live up to its international obligations—which is why we have taken the lead in a broad international effort to impose upon Iran the stiffest, most severe sanctions ever imposed upon a country.”

The goal is to “pressure the regime into, hopefully, changing course, changing behavior, rejoining the community of nations, and abiding by its obligations under a variety of U.N. Security Council resolutions.”

Diplomacy and sanctions are “the best course of action to ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon,” he said, noting that any “breakout” to build nuclear weapons could be detected.

The latest IAEA report also comes after a Pentagon report to Congress in July stated that Iran is continuing to develop its missile forces, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that could be flight-tested by 2015. Analysts say the ICBM would be Iran’s main long-range nuclear delivery vehicle.

An earlier IAEA report said Iran conducted experiments in 2008 and 2009 that involved computer modeling of nuclear blasts. The earlier report also said Iran worked on building small capsules called neutron initiators used in triggering nuclear explosions.

Iran also was engaged in preparation in the past for an underground nuclear explosion, the November 2011 IAEA report said.

President Obama “literally doesn’t have a clue what to do with Iran because he did not show strength or gain the support of the world” early in his presidency, Johnson told the Free Beacon Thursday afternoon on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention. “No one takes him seriously.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency, in a report issued earlier today, accused Iran of doubling its uranium capacity and of hiding evidence of atomic weapons testing.

Johnson blamed Obama for failing to issue a credible military threat against Iran during its continued flouting of international law and the condemnation of numerous Western nations.

“There is not anyone in the world who thinks he’ll pull the trigger on that,” Johnson said. “He has utterly failed to lead.”

Obama has endangered the world by cozying up to America’s fiercest enemies, Johnson charged.

“President Obama seems to revere our enemies and give respect to them and give the backhand to allies like Israel,” he said. “You need to know who your friends are and support your friend and allies.”

Israel will likely be forced to attack Iran without the backing of the U.S., Johnson said.

“I don’t think Israel will allow Iran to go nuclear,” he said. “They’ll only do it as a last resort … [and] if it gets to that, I certainly hope American cooperates.”

Obama’s foreign policy failures extend well past Iran, the Senator added.

“Unfortunately, a president in four years can do a great deal of harm and this president has inflicted that across the board,” from war-torn Iraq to Afghanistan and elsewhere, Johnson said. “His foreign policy failures are legion.”

In its latest update on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded that “Iran has not suspended its enrichment related activities” as it has been ordered to do under international law.

“The Agency continues to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program,” the report said, noting that earlier this month, Iran refused to give inspectors access to multiple research sites that are suspected of housing a nuclear military program.

“Iran did not provide access to Parchin, as requested by the Agency during its two recent visits to Tehran, and no agreement was reached with Iran on a structured approach to resolving all outstanding issues in connection with Iran’s nuclear program,” the report states.

The report—which was issued to the IAEA’s 35-nation board, as well as to the U.N. Security Council—found that Iran is enriching uranium to levels far higher than those needed to operate a civilian nuclear program.

“Iran continues to carry out uranium enrichment,” the report states, confirming the agency’s past suspicions. “The Agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

The report also noted that Iran refused to answer questions regarding the whereabouts of a quantity of missing uranium. Some suspect that the material is being used to run tests on a nuclear-armed missile.

Last November, the IAEA concluded that Iran is producing large amounts of uranium enriched to nearly 20 percent. This brings the regime much closer to possessing weapons-grade material and far exceeds the levels required by their current civilian nuclear program.

“Once they’re sitting on a stockpile of 20 percent [enriched uranium], they’re extremely close to the ability to quickly enrich that to weapons grade,” Stephen Rademaker, a former assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, told the WFB last month.