Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that his country had documents that prove Iran lied about its nuclear program by using secret documents stolen from the Atomic Energy Agency, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the agency's latest quarterly report on Tehran's nuclear activities was "unfair and unbalanced." .

Bennett added in a post on social media that Iran "stole secret documents from the Atomic Energy Agency that enabled it to make up stories to cover up its nuclear program."

"How do we know that? Because we got our hands on the Iranian deception plan," Bennett added, adding that an Iranian military official wrote in one of the documents, "Sooner or later they will ask us (the IAEA inspectors), and we will need a comprehensive narrative to camouflage them."

Iran stole classified documents from the UN's Atomic Agency @IAEAorg and used that information to systematically evade nuclear probes.

How do we know?


Because we got our hands on Iran's deception plan.

It's right here: https://t.co/qg1Fj7iClA pic.twitter.com/6dAhI6VmmW

— Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) May 31, 2022

An aide to the Israeli Prime Minister explained that Bennett's talk is related to what Israeli spies published in 2018 about what they said was a treasure trove of documents seized in Iran, related to its nuclear projects.

Nuclear Archive

Tehran described what Tel Aviv called at the time the "nuclear archive" as a fabrication.

Bennett's statement came in response to a comment by Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian during last week's Davos forum, in which he accused Israel of lying about Iran's nuclear program.

Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, while Israel, the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency have stated that Iran had a coordinated nuclear weapons program until 2003.

The IAEA has conducted investigations for more than a decade into Iran's past nuclear activities and is now again asking it for answers about the source of enriched uranium particles found at 3 undisclosed sites, Marivan (western Iran), Faramin and Turkouzabad, in Tehran Province. .

"Atomic Energy"

On the other hand, Mohammad Reza Ghaibi, Iran's representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that the latest IAEA report is unfair and does not reflect the extent of cooperation between Tehran and the agency. For the IAEA, opponents may use it to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency said that all of his country's nuclear activities are taking place under the roof of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, warning that the agency's latest report may be exploited by opponents of reviving the Iranian nuclear agreement.

The Iranian official stressed that the IAEA would not obtain surveillance camera recordings from Iran's nuclear facilities before agreement on the future of the nuclear agreement.

In its last quarterly report, the agency denounced the lack of "satisfactory answers" from Iran about the traces of enriched uranium that were found in 3 undeclared sites, Marivan (west), Faramin and Turkuazabad, in Tehran province.

The IAEA report also showed that Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60% is estimated to have increased by 10 kilograms to 43 kilograms.

In this context, the French Foreign Ministry urged Iran to respond immediately to the IAEA's inquiries regarding its past nuclear activities.

Vienna negotiations

Regarding the Vienna negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement, Ali Bagheri Kani, political assistant to the Iranian foreign minister and chief negotiator on the nuclear file, said that Iran and Norway stress the need to develop relations between them and continue to make efforts to promote national interests, including lifting illegal sanctions on Iran, as he put it.

Bagheri added in a tweet published today on his Twitter account that he went to the Norwegian capital, Oslo, to continue regional and international discussions, noting that the visit will include serious and constructive negotiations on bilateral, regional and international issues.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today, Tuesday, that the United States is trying to add some additional conditions to the nuclear agreement with Iran, which creates difficulties. without changes.

Russia's delegate to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that Iran "has shown flexibility in the negotiations on the nuclear file, and the ball is now in Tehran's court."

More than a year ago, Iran and the world powers signatories to the nuclear agreement (France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China) began talks in the Austrian capital, in which the United States, which unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018, under former President Donald Trump, indirectly participated.

The negotiations aim at Washington's return to the agreement and the lifting of severe sanctions it imposed on Tehran after its withdrawal, in exchange for the latter's compliance again with its commitments that it retracted after the American withdrawal.