Israeli PM Netanyahu briefs Modi on Iran's 'nuclear breaches'

Press Trust of India  |  Jerusalem 

Drumming up international support for his call to "fix" or "nix" the nuclear deal, Israeli has reached out to his Indian counterpart Modi to update him on the recent developments.

He discussed regional issues with the world leaders and also updated them on the important material that he revealed regarding the Iranian nuclear archive, the press release stated.

had earlier told the media that he would share the archive of more than 100,000 documents said to have been obtained by Israel's espionage agency from a warehouse, which allegedly proves Iran's past clandestine efforts to assemble nuclear weapons.

"The leaders of the E3 Britain, France, and said they want to see the material. They're very interested in seeing what we discovered," told journalists in his office.

Intelligence professionals from London, and are coming to later this week to examine the material presented, he said.

The Israeli spoke to French Emmanuel Macron, Russian and German to update them about the Mossad's findings on Monday.

"I told Putin that he's welcome, too, to see the material. I also invited the of and [Yukiya] (the of the International Atomic Energy Agency)," Netanyahu said.

In a sensational presentation on Monday evening, Netanyahu showcased an enormous trove of Iranian documents that he said proved the existence of Iran's nuclear Project, Amad, which claimed to have frozen in 2003.

In a daring operation, agents are said to have managed to obtain and smuggle into 55,000 paper documents and 183 CDs with another 55,000 documents from what looked like a "dilapidated warehouse" in earlier this year.

has expressed hope that the "irrefutable findings" would help shore up international community's longstanding suspicion that the Islamic Republic was investing great efforts in building a nuclear weapon.

There has been speculation in the Israeli media that close ally will pull out of the Iranian nuclear deal on May 12 and impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic "based on the reactions coming from on the proof gathered by Mossad".

Commenting on the expectations, Netanyahu gave a guarded response saying, "The decision is [Donald] Trump's decision alone. He's a who knows to take decisions, and he takes them".

Trump, a of the seven-party agreement, has long threatened to walk away from the landmark deal unless its European signatories and reconcile his concerns.

The is said to be unhappy about key aspects of the "insane" pact. He has complained that the deal fails to restrict Iran's nuclear activities for long enough and to stop the country's development of ballistic missiles.

A dramatic uptick in in recent weeks has partly been driven by mounting expectations that Trump will soon pull out of the 2015 accord.

The nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of and a group of world powers - P5+1 (meaning the five permanent members of the UNSC and Germany) and the

Some critics have downplayed the claims by Israel and termed Netanyahu's press conference "theatrical" arguing that the existence of Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons programme was already known and detailed in an IAEA report from 2011.

Israeli officials have refuted such critics saying that the world now has much more detailed knowledge of what went on there with "evidence of a whole different level".

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First Published: Sat, May 05 2018. 02:55 IST