Iran Dismisses Absurd Israel’s Claim of Stealing ‘Nuclear Secrets’

Alireza Miryousefi, a spokesman for Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations, was responding to recent reports by The New York Times and other media outlets about the details of Mossad's purported operation near the Iranian capital.

The scenario was initially unveiled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is widely known for his dubious theatrics. Netanyahu went live on television in late April for yet another fake show against Iran and put on display what he claimed to be records from a secret warehouse in Tehran.

Netanyahu claimed Israeli agents had managed to break into the warehouse in an overnight raid and bring back “half a ton of the material” consisting of 55,000 pages and another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.

The Israel premier's vaudeville -- which came only days before the US announced its withdrawal from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran -- was meant to persuade the world that Iran has been lying about its nuclear program, without providing even a single piece of evidence.

Reacting to the show hours later, the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said on May 1 that Netanyahu's presentation failed to question Tehran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal and that any such claims should solely be assessed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The New York Times published an article on July 15, in which it elaborated on the purported Mossad operation, which it claimed lasted for over six hours.

Reacting to the report, Miryousefi once again rejected Israel's claims in a statement and said, "It's almost as if they are trying to see what outlandish claims they can get a Western audience to believe."

“Iran has always been clear that creating indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction is against what we stand for as a country, and the notion that Iran would abandon any kind of sensitive information in some random warehouse in Tehran is laughably absurd,” he added.

Iran has on numerous occasions asserted that its nuclear program is merely peaceful and not meant to make nukes.