Germany vows to take close look at Iran nuclear archive

“We will analyze and assess the Israeli information in great detail,” a spokesperson for the German government in Berlin says of the Iranian nuclear archive smuggled out of Tehran by Israel and made public on Monday.

“It is clear that the international community had doubts that Iran was pursuing an exclusively peaceful nuclear program. For that reason the nuclear pact was concluded in 2015, including an unprecedentedly invasive and robust surveillance system by the International Atomic Energy Agency,” the spokesperson adds.

“This independent verification system will be necessary in the future to secure the continuing adherence of Iran to the restrictions contained in the nuclear deal, in order to guarantee the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.”

The IAEA must “immediately” get familiar with the Israeli material, the spokesperson says.

— Raphael Ahren