Iran's Nuclear secrets exposed amid new deal talks

Al Bawaba

26-04-2025

ALBAWABA - The Iranian nuclear archive reveals how Tehran concealed its nuclear activities, raising concerns amid renewed talks between the U.S. and Iran.
In addition to revealing locations, papers, and photographs, the Iranian nuclear archive also disclosed preliminary information on cover-ups and concealment procedures that were used in order to avoid being discovered by inspectors.
What is important to those who are studying the archive papers is not if Iran would breach the deal, but rather how it will violate the accord. This is because the Trump administration is beginning fresh discussions with Tehran.
In this introduction, Israel Hayom provided a summary of an article written by Itay Ilnai. In the article, Ilnai discussed the theft of the "Iranian Nuclear Archive" by the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service (Mossad). The theft occurred in January 2018, when agents from the Mossad stormed a warehouse in the heart of Tehran and returned with "half a ton of documents related to the Iranian nuclear program."
This handout picture released by the Iranian Army Office on January 12, 2025 (Photo by Iranian Army Office / AFP)
According to the publication, the Mossad made the discovery of activity by the Iranian Ministry of Defense in January of 2016, which is considered to be the beginning of the situation. After further investigation, it was discovered that personnel of the ministry were painstakingly gathering papers from a variety of sites around the nation and then covertly moving them to a civilian warehouse located in an industrial zone south of Tehran.
The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad came to the conclusion that the reason all of these papers were connected to the Iranian nuclear program was the common denominator among them. During that time, Yossi Cohen, who was serving as the head of Mossad at the time, gave orders to his agents to "prepare to bring this material home," which they accomplished successfully within two years.
Iranian official tells Reuters that an agreement was reached on nuclear issues last week, and that only the missile issue remains a sticking point.
Also framed Rubio's comment that Iran could only import uranium as a "new media position" not reflected by talks. pic.twitter.com/LrQZNXU5Sy — Gregory Brew (@gbrew24) April 25, 2025
The large quantity of data that was taken from the nuclear archive included intelligence records that Israel had not been aware of before. These documents indicated the names and locations of various places where Iran had conducted covert military nuclear activity. According to the source, "We did not become aware of these websites until after the archive had been taken."
However, the documents from the nuclear archive revealed a great deal more information, such as conclusive evidence of Iran's attempts to deceive regarding oversight of its nuclear program and how it went to great lengths to conceal its activities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is tasked with monitoring civilian nuclear programs around the world and preventing the development of nuclear weapons.
Israeli allegations that Iran misled International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, submitted false reports and falsified documents, destroyed and purged nuclear sites to weaken the ability to find incriminating evidence, and diverted nuclear equipment and materials from suspicious locations to conceal their connection to Iran's military nuclear program were reportedly confirmed by the archive documents, as reported by the newspaper.
Iran, which has done all in its ability to fool monitoring measures, has no reason to assume that it would act differently this time, according to the newspaper, which made this observation in light of the current discussions between Washington and Tehran over a new nuclear deal.