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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/middleeast/israel-iran-nuclear-netanyahu.html
Israel Says Secret Files Prove Iran Lied about Nuclear Program
(New York Times) David M. Halbfinger, David E. Sanger and Ronen Bergman - Revealing a huge archive of stolen Iranian nuclear plans, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accused Iran on Monday of lying for years about its efforts to build a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu played clips of Iranian leaders repeatedly attesting that their country harbored no ambition for building nuclear weapons - and then pointed to photos, videos, blueprints and other evidence Israeli agents had harvested that showed the Iranians had been deceitful all along. A senior Israeli official said that Israel's Mossad intelligence service discovered the warehouse in February 2016, broke into the building in January, and brought the original documents back to Israel. A former senior Israeli intelligence official said the documents revealed that Iran's nuclear program "was a far larger project" than anyone knew, and proved that the Iranians were "on a clear path to the bomb."