Israel raised the pressure on European partners yesterday to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran by sharing secret files showing Tehran’s determination to build a bomb.
One of the key documents is a memorandum that formally hands responsibility for the production of weapons-grade enriched uranium to the Iranian Defence Ministry. This and other written orders are part of a cache of 100,000 files snatched from a Tehran warehouse by agents of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, in January.
Some of the haul is being made available to the security services of Britain, France and Germany before this week’s trip to Europe by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At a cabinet session yesterday, the Israeli leader made plain that the aim of his diplomatic drive was to persuade the three countries to join US President Donald Trump in withdrawing from the 2015 Iranian deal.
In doing so, he is stepping into a diplomatic rift between the US and Europe.
Read the article by Roger Boyes in The Australian (from The Times).