{"id":64483,"date":"2018-05-01T05:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64483"},"modified":"2018-05-01T05:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:38:25","slug":"israels-iran-documents-show-nuclear-deal-was-lies-says-mike-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/israels-iran-documents-show-nuclear-deal-was-lies-says-mike-pompeo.html","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s Iran documents show nuclear deal was lies, says Mike Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel’s Iran documents show nuclear deal was lies, says Mike Pompeo<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the top secret documents Israel claims to have obtained on Iran’s nuclear programme show Tehran has lied.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Pompeo said the information indicates that a nuclear deal signed between Iran and six world powers in 2015 was not built on good faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump has long signalled his desire to abandon the deal and is due to make a decision in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has described the documents as a “rehash of old allegations”.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed what he said were thousands of “secret nuclear files” that proved that Iran had once covertly pursued nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said it went against a 2015 agreement in which Iran said it would curb its nuclear energy programme in return for the lifting of sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran has maintained that it has only been pursuing nuclear energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Could the nuclear deal collapse?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr Netanyahu, however, accused Iran of conducting a secret weapons programme until 2003 codenamed “Project Amad”. He claimed Iran continued to pursue nuclear weapons knowledge after Project Amad was shuttered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the move by Mr Netanyahu was a “childish” stunt to influence Mr Trump’s decision on whether the US should stick with a nuclear deal with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Trump, who has been vocal about his exception to the Obama-era deal, said he had viewed part of Mr Netanyahu’s presentation and said the situation was “not acceptable”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he would make a decision on whether to retain the deal on or before 12 May.<\/span><\/p>\n

A White House statement said there were “new and compelling details” in Mr Netanyahu’s material.<\/span><\/p>\n

What did Pompeo say?<\/span><\/p>\n

“The documents obtained by Israel from inside Iran show beyond any doubt that the Iranian regime was not telling the truth,” Mr Pompeo said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We assess that the documents we have reviewed are authentic,” he said, adding: “Iran hid a vast atomic archive from the world and from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – until today.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Pompeo also warned that the US was now “assessing what the discovery of Iran’s secret nuclear files means for the future”.<\/span><\/p>\n

What ‘proof’ did Netanyahu produce?<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking in English from Israel’s defence ministry in Tel Aviv, Mr Netanyahu showed off what he said were “exact copies” of documents obtained by Israeli intelligence from a secret storage facility in Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were, he said, 55,000 pages of evidence and a further 55,000 files on 183 CDs relating to Project Amad.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project, he said, had had the explicit goal of producing five warheads, each with the yield of 10 kilotonnes of TNT.<\/span><\/p>\n

“These files conclusively prove that Iran was brazenly lying when it said it never had a nuclear weapons programme.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The files had been shared with the US, Mr Netanyahu said, and would be submitted to the IAEA.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate assessed “with high confidence” that Iran did have a nuclear weapons programme up until 2003 but that Iran had stopped it after its discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday the Israeli prime minister argued the existence of the alleged files proved Iran had been “secretly storing Project Amad material to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear weapons”.<\/span><\/p>\n

How is the 2015 deal meant to work?<\/span><\/p>\n

The agreement signed between Iran, the US, China, Russia, Germany, France and Britain lifted crippling economic sanctions in return for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

There had been fears that Iran would use the programme to create a nuclear weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran is committed to slashing the number of its centrifuges, which are machines used to enrich uranium.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also meant to cut its stockpile of enriched uranium drastically and not enrich remaining uranium to the level needed to produce nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of centrifuges installed at Iran’s Natanz and Fordo sites was cut drastically soon after the deal while tonnes of low-enriched uranium were shipped to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, monitors from the IAEA have been able to carry out snap inspections at Iranian nuclear sites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran nuclear deal: Key details<\/span><\/p>\n

How dangerous is the enmity between Israel and Iran?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tension between the long-standing enemies has grown steadily since Iran built up its military presence in Syria, Israel’s north-eastern neighbour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has also been accused of supplying weaponry to Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel, and also smuggling arms to Palestinian militants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Netanyahu has long vowed to stop Iran from strengthening its military presence in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday night, a wave of unclaimed air strikes on targets in Syria reportedly killed a number of Iranians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sites allegedly linked to a covert Syrian chemical weapons programme were bombed by Western nations earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has also carried out, or is believed to have carried out, dozens of air strikes on facilities in Syria used by Iranian forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-43958205<\/span><\/p>\n

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