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How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran’s Nuclear Secrets
NY Times ^ | July 15, 2018 | David E. Sanger and Ronen Bergman

Posted on 07/17/2018 3:08:54 PM PDT by daniel1212

TEL AVIV — The Mossad agents moving in on a warehouse in a drab commercial district of Tehran knew exactly how much time they had to disable the alarms, break through two doors, cut through dozens of giant safes and get out of the city with a half-ton of secret materials: six hours and 29 minutes...

The agents arrived that night, Jan. 31, with torches that burned at least 3,600 degrees, hot enough, as they knew from intelligence collected during the planning of the operation, to cut through the 32 Iranian-made safes...

In late April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the results of the heist..A few days later, Mr. Trump followed through on his longstanding threat to pull out of the accord..

Last week, at the invitation of the Israeli government, three reporters, including one from The New York Times, were shown key documents from the trove...“The papers show these guys were working on nuclear bombs.”..

The Iranian program to build a nuclear weapon was almost certainly larger, more sophisticated and better organized than most suspected in 2003, when Project Amad was declared ended,.

Iran had foreign help,..Much was clearly from Pakistan..

David Albright, a former inspector who runs the Institute for Science and International Security, said in an interview that the documents contained “great information.”...

Mr. Netanyahu argues that the trove proves that the 2015 agreement, with its sunset clauses allowing the Iranians to produce nuclear fuel again after 2030, was naïve. The fact that the Iranians went to such lengths to preserve what they had learned, and hid the archive’s contents from international inspectors in an undeclared site despite an agreement to reveal past research, is evidence of their future intent, he has said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: davidalbright; erdogan; hamas; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; israeliran; jerusalem; jordan; kurdistan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; nuclear; pakistan; receptayyiperdogan; russia; syria; trump; turkey; waronterror; yemen
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1 posted on 07/17/2018 3:08:54 PM PDT by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

Just shows how dangerous to national security the whole Iran deal was. It’s almost as if Obama wasn’t on our side — imagine that?

Yet, no one in the MSM or Establishment mentions treason. No matter how bad the deal was, all you can hear are the crickets chirping.


2 posted on 07/17/2018 3:19:32 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: daniel1212

3 posted on 07/17/2018 3:19:37 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: daniel1212

One wonders if the stolen documents were the only copy of many of them, especially after the Stuxnet virus had such a productive run? Normally, one does not produce multiple copies of extremely sensitive documents that are locked up like this (else, why lock them up so well?).


4 posted on 07/17/2018 3:20:34 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

Aren’t you glad the Israelis are on our side(for now)?


5 posted on 07/17/2018 3:32:42 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yes...but they’ll always be on our side. I’m fully of the belief that God intervened in our election on Trump’s side...and I think that He doesn’t invest for the short term.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 3:36:41 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: rbg81

“...It’s almost as if Obama wasn’t on our side...”

The Kenyan Usurper was never on our side.
He wan’t one of us, isn’t one of us and never will be one of us.
He was unqualified, ineligible and unfit to be POTUS.
He was/is nothing but a foreign POS....a nasty fudge stain on Lady Liberty’s panties.


7 posted on 07/17/2018 3:52:48 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: MUDDOG

...if you choose to accept it is to eliminate the problems we are having with a Mr. George Soros (file photo shown).


8 posted on 07/17/2018 3:54:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Ancesthntr
but they’ll always be on our side...

The weren't on the US's side during the kenyan usurper's reign, defining "US" as the government held by the enemy (all the mudslims in places of power, and the crater face from Iran herself).

That being the case then, it is possible to happen in the future.... must be always vigilant.

9 posted on 07/17/2018 3:56:05 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: daniel1212
Despite Iranian insistence that its program was for peaceful purposes, the country had worked in the past to systematically assemble everything it needed to produce atomic weapons.

No mention by the press about this during the Obama administration.

10 posted on 07/17/2018 3:56:21 PM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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To: frank ballenger

11 posted on 07/17/2018 4:02:27 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

[The Kenyan Usurper was never on our side.
He wan’t one of us, isn’t one of us and never will be one of us.
He was unqualified, ineligible and unfit to be POTUS.]

Times (yes NYT so be alert) article on this real event and this comment - ping

Netanyahu on Iran’s secrets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBt4tSCALA


12 posted on 07/17/2018 4:08:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MUDDOG

You hit the wrong key and that was one of the mysteriously missing subpoenaed wiretap recordings of Hillary,Huma and Obama detailing the “insurance” in case Trump won.

Humidity, weather conditions and stuff can sometimes damage old tapes.

I got your point , though. Great stuff.


13 posted on 07/17/2018 4:11:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: lgjhn23

Yes, it was tongue-in-cheek. I know Obama was never really on our side.


14 posted on 07/17/2018 4:43:26 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: daniel1212
"...clauses allowing the Iranians to produce nuclear fuel again after 2030...

They should have never been allowed to produce nuclear fuel in the first place. Reactors for generating power need fuel that's a much lower concentration than weapons-grade, so the global nuclear community should have only allowed them the use of that fuel, which would have been refined elsewhere and delivered to Iran and monitored. No need for them to have or use centrifuges.

15 posted on 07/17/2018 5:23:56 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Sessions couldn't find his own ass if Al Franken was grabbing it at the time ))))
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To: rbg81
Just shows how dangerous to national security the whole Iran deal was. It’s almost as if Obama wasn’t on our side — imagine that? Yet, no one in the MSM or Establishment mentions treason. No matter how bad the deal was, all you can hear are the crickets chirping.

They are mentioning treason now - against Pres. Trump.

16 posted on 07/17/2018 6:06:33 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Ancesthntr

Lets hope so.


17 posted on 07/17/2018 6:08:25 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

I think more than one “red line” was crossed?


18 posted on 07/17/2018 6:09:51 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: libertylover

How surprising!


19 posted on 07/17/2018 6:13:08 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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Israel needs to assassinate all the Iranian scientists
20 posted on 07/17/2018 7:50:18 PM PDT by KavMan
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