JERUSALEM – Drumming up international support for his call to “fix” or”nix” the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasreached out to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to update him on therecent developments and seek his support.
A statement from Netanyahu’s media advisor yesterday said the Israeli PrimeMinister spoke to three key international leaders, including Modi,Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and British Prime MinisterTheresa May.
He discussed regional issues with the world leaders and also updated themon the important material that he revealed regarding the Iranian nucleararchive, the press release stated.
Netanyahu had earlier told the media that he would share the archive ofmore than 100,000 documents said to have been obtained by Israel’sespionage agency Mossad from a Tehran warehouse, which allegedly provesIran’s past clandestine efforts to assemble nuclear weapons.
“The leaders of the E3 Britain, France, and Germany said they want to seethe material. They’re very interested in seeing what we discovered,”Netanyahu told journalists in his Jerusalem office.
Intelligence professionals from London, Paris and Berlin are coming toJerusalem later this week to examine the material Israel presented, he said.
The Israeli Premier spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron, RussianPresident Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to update themabout the Mossad’s findings on Monday.
“I told Putin that he’s welcome, too, to see the material. I also invitedthe leader of China and [Yukiya] Amano (the head of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency),” Netanyahu said.
In a sensational presentation on Monday evening, Netanyahu showcased anenormous trove of Iranian documents that he said proved the existence ofIran’s nuclear Project, Amad, which Tehran claimed to have frozen in 2003.