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Israel Reveals Alleged Iranian Nuclear Site as It Seeks More Pressure on
Tehran

Michael Lipin

   This article originated in [1]VOA's Persian Service.

   Israel has revealed what it says is a secret Iranian nuclear weapons
   development site as part of an ongoing campaign to boost international
   pressure on Iran to end its nuclear and regional ambitions.

   In a televised presentation at Israel's Foreign Ministry on Monday,
   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed what he said were satellite
   images and map coordinates of the nuclear site in the central Iranian
   region of Abadeh. Netanyahu said the information came from nuclear
   archives that Israeli agents stole from Iran's capital, Tehran, in
   early 2018. He had previously revealed the existence of those archives.

   In an aerial image of the Abadeh site dated in late June of this year,
   several small buildings were seen clustered in a mountainous region.
   Netanyahu then showed another image of the site with a late July date,
   with all of the buildings demolished. He said Iran cleared the site
   after realizing that Israel had learned of its existence.

   Netanyahu said Iran used the site to conduct "experiments to develop
   nuclear weapons," without elaborating. Iran long has insisted its
   nuclear ambitions are peaceful.

   Netanyahu urged the international community to join U.S. President
   Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran. "The only way
   to stop Iran's march to the bomb, and its aggression in the region, is
   pressure, pressure and more pressure," he said.

     The possessor of REAL nukes cries wolf--on an ALLEGED "demolished"
     site in Iran
     He & [2]#B_Team just want a war, no matter innocent blood & another
     $7 TRILLION
     Remember his "GUARANTEE" of "positive reverberations" in '02?
     This time, he assuredly won't be on the sidelines watching.
     [3]pic.twitter.com/LsR6PYkZZs
     -- Javad Zarif (@JZarif) [4]September 9, 2019

   In a tweeted response to Netanyahu's presentation, Iranian Foreign
   Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tried to undermine the Israeli leader's
   credibility, posting a video clip in which Netanyahu, in a previous
   role as an opposition leader, told a U.S. congressional hearing in the
   early 2000s that removing then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power
   would have "positive reverberations" in the region.

References

   1. https://ir.voanews.com/
   2. https://twitter.com/hashtag/B_Team?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   3. https://t.co/LsR6PYkZZs
   4. https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1171124540757463041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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