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Pompeo: Archive Captured by Israel Reveals Iran's Thinking on Nuclear Program
(State Department) Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said in an interview on Monday that Israel's capture of the Iranian nuclear archive "was an important thing that Israel did there. We have learned more about the [Iranian nuclear] program, and the mere existence of that program intact indicates that the Islamic Republic of Iran is thinking about the day when they might begin to continue their program in a serious way....Some of the infrastructure for the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program was dispersed, those scientists are still out working in laboratories and schools and facilities all around Iran." "The United States is watching closely each of these sites that we suspect may have engaged in some element of a weapons program. I think it's abundantly clear that the declaration that was made [by Iran]...about the Iranian weapons program's history, called the PMD [Possible Military Dimensions] in the JCPOA, that that was fundamentally false. And we have worked diligently to ensure that the IAEA is aware of those things which weren't accurate, and we have urged them to continue to conduct inspections to validate not only that the basis for the JCPOA had factual inaccuracies, but more importantly, the risk that that creates to the nonproliferation regime that was set up by the JCPOA."