An interesting update to the ongoing situation regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal and how the United State is handing it.<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON (CBSMiami\/CNN) \u2013 An interesting update to the ongoing situation regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal and how the United State is handing it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has evidence Iranian officials were \u201cbrazenly lying\u201d when they said Iran wasn\u2019t pursuing nuclear weapons and that the Islamic republic is keeping an \u201catomic archive\u201d at a secret compound.
\u201cTonight, I\u2019m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied \u2014 big time,\u201d Netanyahu said late Monday during an address from the Israel Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
Calling it one of the greatest achievements in the history of Israeli intelligence, Netayahu displayed what he said were files that demonstrate Iran planned to continue pursuing a nuclear weapons program despite the 2015 deal it brokered with the international community.
Speaking in English, Netanyahu accused Iran of ramping up efforts to obscure the files in 2015 and moving them to a secret location in Tehran last year.
The files were kept in massive vaults inside an \u201cinnocent-looking compound\u201d in Shorabad District, the Prime Minister said. The 100,000 files contain, among other things, blueprints, charts, photos, videos and presentations dealing with nuclear weaponry.
\u201cIran planned at the highest level to continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the same personnel,\u201d he said.
\u201cWhat we saw from Netanyahu was a childish play which we had also witnessed in previous years and also from the MKO terrorist group,\u201d Araghchi said, as quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency.
Referring to claims by Netanyahu that it has 55,000 documents from a facility in Iran is \u201cridiculous\u201d because Iran would never harbor such important documents in an abandoned area, Araghci said.
US President Donald Trump applauded the announcement and said it shows he was \u201c100% right\u201d in criticizing the 2015 pact agreed to by former US President Barack Obama, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Iran agreed to reduce its uranium stockpile in return for international sanctions being lifted.
\u201cIn seven years, that deal will have expired and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons. That is not acceptable. Seven years is tomorrow,\u201d Trump said.
Asked what might come of the deal, Trump responded, \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d Even if he does pull out of the deal, he said, \u201cthat doesn\u2019t mean I wouldn\u2019t negotiate a new agreement.\u201d
Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to continue waiving sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the Iran deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Before Netanyahu\u2019s address, Zarif tweeted, \u201cThe boy who can\u2019t stop crying wolf is at it again. Undeterred by cartoon fiasco at UNGA. You can only fool some of the people so many times.\u201d Zarif was referring to a cartoon drawing of a bomb that Netanyahu referred to during a September 2012 appearance before the UN General Assembly about Iran\u2019s nuclear program.
\u201cPres. Trump is jumping on a rehash of old allegations already dealt with by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to \u2018nix\u2019 the deal. How convenient. Coordinated timing of alleged intelligence revelations by the boy who cries wolf just days before May 12. But Trump\u2019s impetuousness to celebrate blew the cover.\u201d
Netanyahu alleged that Iran for years operated the secret Project Amad, which sought to produce five nuclear warheads, each with an explosive yield equivalent to five of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, The nation stored material related to Project Amad to use later, he said.
Iran lied about Project Amad, he said, when one of the conditions of the nuclear deal was that Iran had to \u201ccome clean\u201d about its activities related to nuclear arms.
Netanyahu said during his address that Zarif \u2014 along with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, and President Hassan Rouhani \u2014 had all previously lied when they said Iran had no interest in nuclear weapons.
The Prime Minister vehemently opposes the deal and said Monday it provides Iran \u201ca clear path to an atomic arsenal\u201d by allowing for unlimited uranium enrichment within a few years, and by failing to address the country\u2019s development of ballistic missiles and its advanced work on weaponization.
Hours after showing the purported evidence of Iran\u2019s deception around the nuclear deal, Netanyahu spoke with the leaders of France, Germany and Russia, promising to share the intelligence he publicized, according to the Prime Minister\u2019s office.
Netanyahu\u2019s office described the material as the \u201cexposure of the documents on the Iranian plan to achieve nuclear weapons.\u201d
Netanyahu told the leaders of France and Germany that he would send professional teams to brief them on the material Israel revealed. The Prime Minister intends to speak to the leaders of Great Britain and China \u201cforthwith,\u201d his office said.
Germany will analyze and evaluate the information presented by Israel concerning Iran\u2019s nuclear program, a government spokesperson said. The spokesperson said the agreement established a \u201clandmark and robust\u201d system for monitoring compliance with the deal \u2014 and will continue to be necessary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin remains committed to the Iran nuclear deal, telling Netanyahu in a Monday phone call that it must be \u201cstrictly observed by all parties,\u201d the Kremlin said.
The White House said Trump on Monday spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday to \u201caddress developments concerning Syria and Iran.\u201d Details were not provided.
In his presentation, Netanyahu dramatically pulled aside dark sheets to reveal shelves holding books he said were copies of 55,000 pages of Iranian nuclear information and a display of discs he said were 55,000 files.
He didn\u2019t provide details about how Israel obtained the purported documents.
\u201cYou may want to know where are the originals,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, I can say now they\u2019re in a very safe place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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