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Netanyahu Says U.S. President Knew in Advance of Israel's Iran Archive Mission
(Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he informed U.S. President Donald Trump in advance of Israel's spy mission in Tehran in February 2018 to capture the secret Iranian nuclear archive. Netanyahu said he had discussed the planned operation with Trump when they met at the Davos forum in January 2018. "He asked me if it was dangerous. I told him that there was a danger to it that was not negligible, but that the outcome justified the risk." Netanyahu said that when he later presented the main findings from an Israeli analysis of the documents to Trump at the White House, the president "voiced his appreciation for the boldness. I have no doubt that this helped to validate his decision to withdraw from this dangerous (Iran nuclear) deal."