Netanyahu Discloses Second Alleged Iranian Atomic Secret Facility in Tehran
Prime Minister Netanyahu made new claims about Iran's alleged nuclear program during his speech to the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
The Israeli prime minister claimed Iran's secret warehouse has materials and equipment related to atomic weapons program.
"Today I am disclosing for the first time that Iran has another secret facility in Tehran, a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material for Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said.
"Just last month, they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive materials," Netanyahu added, claiming that this material has been spread around Tehran, endangering the city's residents. "They took this material and spread it around Tehran."
According to the prime minister, this second site could have contained as much as 300 tons of nuclear-related materials.
"Why did Iran keep a secret atomic archive, and a secret atomic warehouse?" Netanyahu asked. According to the Israeli leader, it's because it has not abandoned its nuclear weapons ambitions.
"What Iran hides, Israel will find," Netanyahu boasted, urging the IAEA to inspect this alleged secret warehouse and other facilities uncovered by Israel. "Once and for all, tell the world the truth about Iran," he urged.
"Israel will do whatever it must do to defend against Iran's aggression," Netanyahu said, noting that Israel would act against Iran in Syria, Lebanon and even Iraq, "wherever" is needed "to defend our state and our people."
Netanyahu accused the Iran nuclear deal's supporters of being naive about Iran's intentions and the implications of sanctions relief, suggesting Iran has used its weapons "to fuel its vast war machine" instead of improving the lives of ordinary Iranians.
The Israeli leader claimed that Europe and others were "appeasing Iran" by helping it to bypass sanctions, and accused them of having "learned nothing from history," including 20th century European history.
"This deal did not push war further away. It brought war ever closer to our borders," Netanyahu said, pointing to alleged Iranian attacks against Israel from Syria and the Gaza Strip, and claiming that Iranian actions in Lebanon included the provision of precision missile technology that Hezbollah might use to strike Israel. The prime minister charged Hezbollah of using Beirut's citizens as "human shields."
"I have a message for Hezbollah today. Israel also what you're doing, Israel knows where you're doing it, and Israel will not let you get away with it," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu claimed that the nuclear deal's supporters were "dead wrong" about the limited economic impact of restored US sanctions against Tehran. "A year ago, Iran's economy was booming. Now it's collapsing," the prime minister boasted, pointing to the fall of Iran's currency, and the withdrawal of Western companies fearing secondary US sanctions.
Netanyahu encouraged Europe's leaders and others to join new US sanctions "instead of coddling Iran's dictators."
The prime minister said the Iran deal did have one positive consequence for Israel, which was the bringing together of Israel and the Arab world against Tehran. This relationship, this "intimacy and friendship," was something Netanyahu said he had "not seen in my lifetime, and would have been unimaginable a few years ago."
Praising US support for Israel at the US, Netanyahu attacked a "morally bankrupt" UNESCO, and an "unreformed UNRWA," which he said has "absurdly accused" Israel of racism. "Here at the UN, Israel is shamefully accused of Apartheid," the prime minister said, pointing to minority rights for Palestinians. "It's the same old anti-semitism with a brand new face," he said of the claims.
"Once it was the Jewish people that were slandered and held to a different standard. Now it is the Jewish state that has been slandered and held to a different standard," Netanyahu claimed.
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