Benjamin Netanyahu’s PowerPoint show, individual slides shown
By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN
Microsoft should be proud. One of the most interesting PowerPoint slideshows created by one world leader – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – with the express purpose of convincing another – United States President Donald Trump – to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal was released this morning by Israel’s Government Press Office.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The 43-slides, which were shown last night by Netanyahu over Israeli TV, purportedly show that Iran has secretly carried on its nuclear program and upgraded its ability to deliver nuclear weapons through ongoing missile programs.
According to reports, Mossad, Israel’s secret service, broke into Iran’s secret file archives and stole “a half ton” of documents in order to make their case that Iran had not been adhering to their promises of not continuing nuclear research in exchange for the lifting of U.S. and worldwide sanctions. Those sanctions had been put in place on them since 1979, the year of the Iranian Revolution, and were increased in severity in 1995 by Congress, when doing business with Iran carried with it even more severe penalties.
Netanyahu named all of the major players in the Iran secret nuclear program and a treasure trove of the stolen photos and diagrams to support Netanyahu’s allegations are included in the slideshow. The slideshow has been uploaded to the CCJN site and can be downloaded as a PowerPoint slideshow in its entirety. In addition, the individual slides have been uploaded as a gallery beneath this article and can be accessed directly by clicking them individually.
Those sanctions were lifted in 2016 by the U.S government and the United Nations, when it was determined that Iran was in compliance. Netanyahu’s PowerPoint slideshow from yesterday disputes that they ever were in compliance, although critics maintain that the materials Mossad unearthed were old and no longer relevant.
President Trump has until May 12 to make up his mind as to whether the U.S. will continue to be a part of the Iran agreement secured during the waning days of the Obama administration or if he will propose that the U.S. pulls out of the deal. He indicated yesterday he would not reveal his intentions until that date or, at least, not until the administration was closer to it.
