{"id":9883,"date":"2025-06-08T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:05:23","slug":"iran-to-reveal-treasure-trove-of-sensitive-israeli-documents-says-intelligence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9883","title":{"rendered":"Iran to reveal \u2018treasure trove\u2019 of sensitive Israeli documents, says intelligence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sensitive Israeli documents obtained by Tehran should be unveiled soon, Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib told state TV on Sunday, describing them as a &#8220;treasure trove&#8221; which will strengthen Iran&#8217;s offensive capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media reported on Saturday that Iranian intelligence agencies had obtained a large trove of sensitive Israeli documents. Khatib said these were related to Israel&#8217;s nuclear facilities and its relations with the United States, Europe and other countries, and to its defensive capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate official comment from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear whether the information breach was linked to a reported hacking, opens new tab of an Israeli nuclear research centre last year which Tehran is only disclosing now amid heightened tensions over its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The transfer of this treasure trove was time-consuming and required security measures. Naturally, the transfer methods will remain confidential but the documents should be unveiled soon,&#8221; Khatib said, adding that in terms of volume, &#8220;talking of thousands of documents would be an understatement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli agents had seized a huge &#8220;archive&#8221; of Iranian documents that showed Tehran had done more nuclear work than previously known.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme. But Trump in April reportedly blocked a planned Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites in favour of negotiating a deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that abandoning uranium enrichment was &#8220;100%&#8221; against Iran&#8217;s interests, rejecting a central US demand in talks to resolve a decades-long dispute over Tehran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Western powers say Iran is refining uranium to a high degree of fissile purity close to the level suitable for atomic bomb fuel. Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensitive Israeli documents obtained by Tehran should be unveiled soon, Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib told state TV on Sunday, describing them as a &#8220;treasure trove&#8221; which will strengthen Iran&#8217;s offensive capabilities. Iranian state media reported on Saturday that Iranian intelligence agencies had obtained a large trove of sensitive Israeli documents. Khatib said these were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}