A senior Israeli intelligence officer said: “What Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency about its capacities was almost comical compared to what we have here.”
David Albright, a former nuclear inspector in Iraq, also told The Times that the Israeli criticisms of Tehran’s failure to acknowledge its past work on nuclear weapons was correct.
Another document shown to the newspaper from the cache is said to show the approval of uranium enrichment for use in a weapon.
The document is signed by Amir Daryaban Ali Shamkami, now military adviser to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
President Trump had cited Iran’s refusal to admit to the scope of its weapons programme as a reason for the renewal of US sanctions against Iran.
Israeli PM Netanyahu will this week attempt to persuade the UK, and then France and Germany to back the US President’s move.
