1 \ Netanyahu briefed President Trump 2 months ago on the capture of the Iranian "nuclear archive" by the Mossad. Netanyahu decided to publicly expose the documents yesterday due to the upcoming May 12th deadline Trump has set for the Iran nuclear deal

2 \ Israeli official told me that during a meeting at white House on March 5th Netanyahu presented Trump and his senior cabinet members – Pence, Mattis, Tillerson and McMaster – with an initial analysis of the "Iran Nuclear archive"

3 \ Netanyahu spoke to Trump over the phone last Saturday and updated him he will publish the new intelligence later in the week. A day later he met in Tel-Aviv with Secretary of State Pompeo and gave him a similar update

4 \ An Israeli official said the timing of the publication was coordinated with the White House and the reason it was published this week was due to the May 12th deadline regarding the Iran deal

5 \ The Israeli official added that Israel wanted to publicly release its new intelligence after the visits made by French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel to the White House last week during which they tried to convince Trump not to withdraw from the Iran deal

6 \ The Israeli official told me: "We are facing a major decision by President Trump regarding the nuclear deal. Last week was for the Europeans and this week is our week"

7 \ The Mossad discovered the existence of an Iranian "Nuclear archive" in February 2016 – a short time after the nuclear deal started being implemented

8 \ Israeli official said the Mossad received intelligence that showed the Iranians were trying to hide all the documents which dealt with the military dimensions of their nuclear program

9 \ The official said that in a highly secret operation known to a handful of Iranian officials the Iranians transferred tens of thousands of documents and CD's from several different sites around the country to a civilian warehouse in Tehran

10 \ The Israeli official said the Iranians did all that because they were afraid that in post Iran deal inspections the IAEA will discover the incriminating documents

11 \ The Mossad has put the warehouse under surveillance and started preparing for a possible operation to seize the documents. According to Israeli officials more than 100 Mossad spies worked on this operation and in January 2018 it was implemented

12 \ A senior Israeli intelligence official told me the Mossad managed to put its hands on most of the documents in the warehouse. "We didn’t take everything because it was too heavy", he said

13 \ An Israeli official said the CIA and the White House knew about the Israeli efforts to capture the "Iranian nuclear archive". Israel has briefed the U.S. immediately after the successful operation

14 \ On March 5th Prime Minister Netanyahu met Trump and the Senior members of the cabinet and briefed them on the details of the new intelligence. An Israeli official said that at the same time the Mossad gave the CIA copies of all the 100 thousand documents it has obtained

15 \ In February Mossad started translating & analyzing the documents most of were written in Farsi. A special team with 50 analysts was formed in the Mossad & a separate team is working in the CIA. Both intelligence agencies still haven’t finished analyzing the documents

16 \ An Israeli official told me: "The documents tell us new things about the military dimensions of the Iranian nuclear program. Things we didn’t know before. The documents give us new details about Iranian R&D sites, sites for possible nuclear tests & individuals involved"

17 \ The official added: "The documents tell us more details than the IAEA knew until toady about the Iranian nuclear program. The documents will be a very strong proof that there was a military nuclear program in Iran. Such proof that the Iranians will not be able to deny". END

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