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Swordsmyth
09-29-2018, 12:20 AM
Netanyahu's Thursday UN General Assembly speech predictably included the familiar props and visuals condemning Iran over what the Israeli prime minister says is a continuing nuclear program it is hiding from the world's view.
Like pretty much all prior Netanyahu speeches focusing on Iran, he held up a physical "evidence" to illustrate his points as he spoke — this time it was a "proof" that Iran has yet another secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material in the form of an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow pointing to a large building.
Though this was perhaps a step up from the cartoon bomb performance at the UNGA in 2012, the act is now a fixture and entirely predictable after many others spanning years, barely eliciting much media excitement compared to six years ago.
But unlike the last number of similar speeches, US intelligence officials have told Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-assembly-israel-iran/israel-accuses-iran-of-concealing-nuclear-material-for-weapons-program-idUSKCN1M72FZ) that the claims are not true.


Reuters called the claims of the freshly revealed purported atomic facility "nothing new" to the Americans, according to an unnamed intelligence source (https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5359815,00.html):

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States is aware of the facility Netanyahu announced and described it as a “warehouse” used to store “records and archives” from Iran’s nuclear program.
And further citing a second intelligence official, the report continued:

A second U.S. intelligence official called Netanyahu’s comments “somewhat misleading. First, we have known about this facility for some time, and it’s full of file cabinets and paper, not aluminum tubes for centrifuges, and second, so far as anyone knows, there is nothing in it that would allow Iran to break out of the JCPOA any faster than it otherwise could.”
A separate Israeli media report also noted the contradiction (https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5359815,00.html) between Netanyahu's speech and US intelligence: "The claims gainsay the remarks made by Netanyahu, who said that the site, which sits a short distance from Shourabad, contained some 15 kg (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved."

"A second U.S. intelligence official called Netanyahu’s comments “somewhat misleading. https://t.co/ki233P9Wld pic.twitter.com/DqzXA8mhpy (https://t.co/DqzXA8mhpy)
— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) September 28, 2018 (https://twitter.com/GEsfandiari/status/1045554001759088641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Thus it appears the media — including Israeli media — aren't so lockstep in uncritically repeating Netanyahu's talking points anymore.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-27/bibi-prop-master-netanyahu-reveals-new-secret-iran-nuclear-site