Iran Nuclear Deal: Israeli PM accuses Iran of lying about weapons work

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has evidence to prove Iran has secretly been working to develop nuclear weapons. This came despite the I-A-E-A, world powers, and Trump's own generals saying Tehran is complying with the deal. CGTN's Stephanie Freid reports.

"Iran Lied. Big time. About nuclear systems, weapons development, hidden underground facilities and prepping nuclear tests. At least that's what Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a live address.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER "After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its effort to hide its secret nuclear files. In 2017 Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran."

STEPHANIE FREID TEL AVIV "Netanyahu is known for his dramatic flair and on Monday he did not disappoint revealing maps, diagrams and images of alleged underground facilities and more than one hundred thousand secret documents he claimed Israel uncovered. The prime minister said Iran's alleged secret nuclear ambitions were codenamed "Project Amad."

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER "Now from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a delapidated warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran's secret atomic archive locked in massive files."

STEPHANIE FREID TEL AVIV "Israel's prime minister says he briefed the U.S. about Israel's findings and that the International Atomic Energy Agency will also be briefed soon as well.

The timing is impossible to ignore: a day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit and 12 days before U.S. President Trump is to either continue with or nix the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu said he was sure Trump would, quote, "do the right thing." Stephanie Freid, CGTN, JERUSALEM.