April 30, 2018 -- News from Israel on Iran's Nuclear Program

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed on Monday that Iran had been pursuing a secret nuclear program.  In itself, this is not too earth shattering news for the United States, Israel, and other nations have known about Iran’s nuclear program and nuclear weapon plans.  This was in part the reason for the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that was made by Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna between Iran and six nations—the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and China.  What is surprising is that Netanyahu claims Israel now has proof of the nuclear weapon plans.      

The nuclear weapon’s program, which is called “Project Amad,” was hidden in Tehran within an old warehouse.  Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, had had the warehouse under surveillance since February 2016.  In a secretive mission one night “Mossad operatives” removed the documents and data in January 2018 and brought them back to Israel.  President Trump was informed of the operation by Yossi Cohen in January.  The reason for the delay in making the evidence public was much of it was in Persian and the information needed to be analyzed.