Nuclear deal: Netanyahu accuses Iran of cheating on agreement
Israeli PM claims ‘new and conclusive proof’ shows Iran hid nuclear weapons, though evidence had been seen by UN watchdog
by Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Julian Borger in Washington
Apr 30, 2018
4 minutes
Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of continuing to hide and expand its nuclear weapons knowhow after a 2015 agreement with global powers, presenting what the Israeli prime minister claimed was “new and conclusive proof” of violations.
Netanyahu presented a series of slides and photographs of documents that he said were drawn from a half-ton cache obtained by Israeli intelligence “a few weeks ago”. The New York Times reported that Mossad had broken into a warehouse in January and smuggled them to Israel the same night. The report did not say how such a large amount of documentation was transported in secret.
However, key documents highlighted by Netanyahu had previously been seen by the
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