Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has evidence Iranian officials were "brazenly lying" when they said Iran wasn't pursuing nuclear weapons and that the Islamic republic is keeping an "atomic archive" at a secret compound.
He said thousands of pages of material obtained by Israel showed Iran had deceived the world by denying it had ever sought nuclear weapons.
"Tonight I'm here to tell you one thing: Iran lied," Netanyahu said today at a news conference in Tel Aviv.
Calling it one of the greatest achievements in the history of Israeli intelligence, Netanyahu displayed what he said were files that demonstrate Iran planned to continue pursuing a nuclear weapons program despite the 2015 deal it brokered with the international community.
The prime minister said that the files were kept in massive vaults inside an "innocent-looking compound" in Shorabad District.
“Iran planned at the highest level to continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the same personnel,” CNN cited the PM as saying.
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