Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed what he said was “conclusive proof” of a secret project under way in Iran for the development of a nuclear weapon—evidence that he said proved that Tehran had lied “big time” to the international community.
“Tonight we’re going to show you something that the world has never seen before. Tonight, we are going to reveal new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community in its secrete atomic archive,” Netanyahu told a public audience during what he said was a “significant development regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran” at the Kiryah military headquarters in Tel Aviv. “We’re going to show you Iran’s secret atomic archive.”
Israel had obtained, he said, in a “great intelligence achievement,” secrets comprising a giant trove of documents and digital information pertaining to Iran’s clandestine Amad nuclear weapons project whose goal was “creating nuclear weapons.” The evidence was obtained by Israeli intelligence in a “dilapidated warehouse” in southern Tehran. Netanyahu said Project Amad is a “comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons,” that ran between 1999 and 2003.
The evidence proves “Iran has been hiding for years from the international community” its nuclear weapons development program, he said.
The prime minister, who delivered the speech in both English and Hebrew, began by presenting his listeners with three separate excerpts from past speeches by Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in which the three denied in an international forum any intentions to obtain a nuclear weapon.
“We didn’t have any plan to develop nuclear weapons,” Zarif is heard saying in a recording played at the beginning of the speech, to which Netanyahu responds: “Well, tonight I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied, big time.”
Two years after the signing of the nuclear agreement, Iran “intensified its efforts to hide its secret files” by moving them to the Shorabad district in Tehran in a “highly secret location” where the Shi’ite regime kept its atomic archive, Netanyahu said.
“Everything you’re about to see is an exact copy of the Iranian original material,” he added. ‘We’ve shared this material with the US and the US can vouch for its authenticity.”
Reaching the conclusion of his speech, Netanyahu slammed the fact that the Iran nuclear deal has been signed to begin with. “The deal is based on lies. It is based on Iranian lies,” he said, describing it as “a terrible deal. It should never [have] been concluded.”
Netanyahu concluded by addressing the upcoming May 12 deadline during which US President Donald Trump will decide whether or not to withdraw from the deal. “I’m sure he’ll do the right thing.”
By Ynetnews.com
