The sensitive Israeli documents obtained by Tehran must appear soon, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib told Sunday to state television, describing them as a “treasure” that will strengthen Iran’s offensive abilities.
Iranian state media reported on Saturday that Iranian intelligence agencies had obtained a great treasure of sensitive Israeli documents. Khatib said they were related to Israel’s nuclear facilities and their relations with the United States, Europe and other countries, and their defensive abilities.
There were no immediate official comments from Israel.
It was not clear if the violation of the information was linked to an informed piracy of an Israeli nuclear research center last year, which Tehran is only revealing now in the midst of high tensions on its nuclear program.
“The transfer of this treasure was slow and the security measures required. Naturally, the transfer methods will continue to be confidential, but the documents must be presented soon,” Khatib said, added that in terms of volume, “talking about thousands of documents would be a euphemism.”
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli agents had taken a great “archive” of Iranian documents that showed that Tehran had done more nuclear work than was previously known.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to bomb Iran if Tehran does not reach an agreement with Washington on his nuclear program. But according to reports, Trump in April blocked an Israeli strike planned in Iranian nuclear sites in favor of negotiating an agreement with Tehran.
The supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, said Wednesday that abandoning uranium enrichment was “100 percent” against Iran’s interests, rejecting a central demand from the United States in conversations to resolve a decades dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Western powers say that Iran is refining uranium to a high degree of fisrosil purity near the appropriate level for the fuel of the atomic pump. Iran has long denied having searched for nuclear weapons.
