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Netanyahu
shows slides, shelves of docs claiming Iran has nuclear weapons
program
RT,
30
April, 2018
Iran
lied about its nuclear program, making the 2015 deal invalid, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address from
Tel Aviv, using big-screen presentation slides and video.
Netanyahu
showed the public a massive bookcase filled with folders, claiming
this represents the number of documents that Israel has on Iran's
program. He went on through his presentation on human-sized long
screens, showing slides and pictures of what he claimed was evidence
of Tehran violating the agreement with global powers.
Though
Iran claimed it never had a nuclear weapons program, “100,000
secret files prove it did,” Netanyahu said. After the 2015 nuclear
deal, Iran “continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons
knowledge” for future use.
"After
signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to
hide its secret files," he said. "In 2017 Iran moved its
nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran."
According
to the PM, Tehran had preserved and expanded its military nuclear
know-how in a secret atomic archive after the 2015 deal was signed.
He said that “half a ton” of documents from the archives were
obtained by Israel in “a great intelligence achievement.”
Netanyahu claimed that the files contain incriminating evidence that
Iran has been working to develop a nuclear bomb as part of a program
called “Project Amad.”
Netanyahu
has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the intelligence
discoveries, and intends to send experts to France and Germany in the
coming days to share the findings, the PM’s office said in a
statement.
Israel
has long opposed the 2015 agreement, which saw international
sanctions on its main geopolitical rival lifted in exchange for Iran
curbing it controversial nuclear program.
Iranian
media have dismissed Netanyahu’s presentation, with the news agency
Fars calling it “a propaganda show” and the state news agency
IRNA describing the Israeli PM as “famous for ridiculous displays.”
Iranian
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called Netanyahu’s presentation a
“coordinated timing of alleged intelligence revelations by the boy
who cries wolf” just before May 12, when US President Donald Trump
is expected to pull out of the nuclear deal. Zarif said Netanyahu was
undeterred by the “cartoon fiasco” at the UN General Assembly,
referring to the 2012 presentation that used a cartoon bomb graphic.
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After
his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday,
Netanyahu said that “the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear
weapons” remains “the greatest threat” to Israel, the US, and
the whole world.
Trump
has slammed the Iran nuclear deal as “the worst deal ever” and
threatened to pull the US out of the agreement. Trump’s threat will
be carried out if he doesn’t renew a waiver on sanctions against
Iran until May 12.
The
leaders of the UK, France, and Germany vowed to defend the Iran
nuclear deal in a joint statement on Sunday, calling it “the best
way” to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu’s
Power Point: Iran presentation's greatest hits (PHOTOS)
RT,
30 April, 2018
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on a major show to argue that
the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was “based on lies.” Files snatched by
his spies say Iran was building five "Hiroshima" bombs to
mount on ballistic missiles.
In
a well-rehearsed televised address, which was delivered in English
and accompanied by a series of presentation slides, Netanyahu claimed
that “after
signing the nuclear deal in 2015 Iran intensified its efforts to hide
its secret nuclear files.”
The
super-secret document stash was moved to “a
highly secret location” in
Tehran’s Shorabad district last year.
The
plot thickens. The facility was made to look like a “dilapidated
warehouse” from
the outside, but contained “massive
safes” with
top secret data, until Israeli agents obtained a large amount of
those files "in
a great intelligence achievement” a
few weeks ago, the PM said.
According
to Netanyahu, Israeli intelligence has snatched “half
a ton” of
Iranian nuclear know-how, which amounts to 55,000 pages and another
55,000 files on 183 CDs of “incriminating
documents, charts, presentations, blueprints, photos and videos.”
With
a flourish, he revealed shelves with numerous files and CDs to the
journalists, specifying that those were just copies of the original
Iranian materials.
The
files provided evidence that Tehran was working on “a
comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear
weapons” between 1999 and 2003, entitled Project Amad,
Netanyahu claimed.
Iran
planned to produce five warheads with a ten-kiloton TNT yield for
integration on missiles, he said, adding that was “like
five Hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles.”
The
project has the five key elements of a nuclear weapons program, which
includes designing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear cores,
building nuclear implosion systems, preparing nuclear tests and
integrating warheads on missiles, according to Netanyahu.
“Iran
is secretly storing the Project Amad material to use in a time of its
choice to develop nuclear weapons,” the
PM warned.
“Iran
is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons
program,” Netanyahu said. Tehran “continued to preserve
and expand its nuclear weapons know-how” after the 2015
accord, as demonstrated by the documents Israeli spies obtained from
the secret archive.
“Iran
was to come clean to the IAEA, but it denied the existence of a
coordinated military nuclear program,” Netanyahu
said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The
pinnacle of the presentation was the Israeli PM’s claim that the
2015 nuclear deal – also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA) and signed by Iran and six world powers – was “based
on lies.”
“We’ve
shared this material with the US. And the US can vouch for its
authenticity,” Netanyahu said, without explaining how that
might be the case.
The
Israeli PM has also spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and
intends to send experts to Germany and France to brief their
officials on the data, Netanyahu's office said in a statement on
Monday.
US
President Donald announced in October last year that Iran was not
complying with the nuclear deal, and is expected to officially
announce the re-imposition of US sanctions on May 12. Russia, China
and the three European powers that signed the deal have disagreed
with that assessment, however.
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