US Confirms Authenticity Of Israel’s ‘Dramatic News’ On Iran’s Nuclear Program

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered “dramatic” news on Iran. Although to be fair, this came to no surprise to those paying attention.

Iran blatantly lied about its nuclear program.

“Iran lied about never having a secret nuclear program. Secondly, even after the deal, it continued to expand its nuclear program for future use. Thirdly, Iran lied by not coming clean to the IAEA,” he said, adding that, “the nuclear deal is based on lies based on Iranian deception.”

I don’t have a problem trusting Israel on this, but for those who do, you should know that US officials reviewed the documents and confirmed their authenticity. Israel isn’t making this up.

Via Free Beacon:

U.S. officials who reviewed the secret documents confirmed their authenticity and said that Israel has shared the information fully with the United States, most likely to help build the case for Trump to abandon the nuclear deal, rather than try to fix what the White House views as a series of insurmountable flaws.

A State Department official confirmed to the Free Beacon Monday evening that it is “aware of the information just released” by Israel and is “examining it carefully.”

“The United States has reviewed many of the documents Israel has obtained relating to Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” an official confirmed to the Free Beacon. “We assess that the documents that we have reviewed are authentic.”

The State Department further confirmed that “new details in this information are consistent with a large body of evidence and intelligence the U.S. government has amassed over many years on Iran’s past clandestine nuclear weapons program,” according to the official.

While the administration’s analysis of the document cache is “ongoing,” officials said they “agree with the Israelis that…. this information provides new and compelling details about Iran’s past efforts to develop nuclear weapons deliverable by a Shahab-3 ballistic missile.”

Additionally, the information “indicates plans for Iran’s nuclear weapons program included building five nuclear weapons.”

Lovely. Just lovely.

The documents confirm a longstanding U.S. suspicion that “Iran has systematically hid evidence of clandestine weapons work from international inspectors,” according to the State Department official.

“If there was ever any doubt, every struggling Iranian citizen must now realize that Iran has lost countless dollars from nuclear sanctions for one reason, and one reason alone: the Iranian regime’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons, weapons that Supreme Leader Khamenei personally insists are un-Islamic,” the official said. “It is long past time for Iran to come clean and cooperate with international inspections into its past weapons work in order to convince the world it is serious about never again pursuing nuclear weapons.”

I know French President Macron was just here and had a total bromance going on with Trump, but I don’t see Trump bowing to his wishes and sticking with the Iran deal. Not after this.

“The United States is aware of the information just released by Israel and continues to examine it carefully,” the White House said. “This information provides new and compelling details about Iran’s efforts to develop missile-deliverable nuclear weapons. These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people. The Iranian regime has shown it will use destructive weapons against its neighbors and others. Iran must never have nuclear weapons.”

It’s time to formally drop that terrible deal.

You know what to do, Mr. President.

h/t Free Beacon