Iran’s intelligence apparatus has obtained a vast trove of strategic and sensitive documents related to the clandestine Israeli nuclear program, including records of plans and facilities.
Sources familiar with the matter told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Saturday that the intelligence breach represents one of the biggest blows to the occupying regime.
The sources said that although the operation to obtain the documents was carried out some time ago, the sheer volume of materials and the need to transport them safely into Iran necessitated a news blackout to ensure they reached the designated protected locations.
They also noted that the abundance of documents is so vast that reviewing them, along with viewing images and videos, has consumed a significant amount of time.
The revelation comes more than two weeks after Israeli regime authorities announced the arrest of two men on suspicion of committing “security crimes” on behalf of Iran.
According to a joint statement issued on May 20 by Israel Police and the Shin Bet spy service, Roy Mizrahi and Almog Atias, both 24, were detained in late April for allegedly conducting intelligence-gathering missions for Iran.
Officials claim the two men are accused of shadowing the Israeli minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, in the community of Kfar Ahim in the southern occupied territories.
Sources told IRIB that their arrest, if it was connected to the case, occurred after the documents had already been transported out of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel, widely regarded as one of the nuclear powers, launched its nuclear program in 1952 with technological support from France and the United States.
The first known nuclear weapons were developed by the regime around 1967-1968, according to various military think tanks. After that, the production accelerated rapidly, without any outcry.
In 1986, a technician at the Dimona nuclear facility, Mordechai Vanunu, exposed the regime’s clandestine nuclear program, for which he in 1988 convicted of treason and sentenced to 18 years.
In December 2013, former Knesset member Avraham Burg also admitted that the regime holds both nuclear and chemical weapons, dubbing the policy of nuclear ambiguity as “outdated and childish”.
The Israeli regime has refused to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and the United Nations nuclear agency has also refrained from putting pressure on it to make public its nuclear program.
