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U.S. Officials Respond to Iran's Atomic Archive Revelation
(Washington Free Beacon) Adam Kredo - After the disclosure Monday by Israel of Iran's ongoing efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, a State Department official said the new "information indicates plans for Iran's nuclear weapons program included building five nuclear weapons. It demonstrates once again that Iranian leaders have for years lied to the world and their own citizens when they claim Iran has never pursued nuclear weapons." A senior administration official said, "Only the regime knows what else they're hiding, but the revelations today don't give us much confidence in their protestations that they have never had interest in militarizing their nuclear program. They're showing us in Syria how they plan to deploy their existing arsenal. We would be foolish to think that behavior is going to change because of a deal that was implemented two years ago that was based on a lie." A senior congressional official who has worked closely with the White House on the Iran issue said, "The Obama administration...assured us that we knew everything about Iran's nuclear weapons program, that it was put on ice, and that the intelligence community had full insight into what was going on. Now we find out the Iranians have warehouses of nuclear weapons designs. People are in shock....This shows how the whole sale was built on a lie."