How Mossad Robbed Iran's Secret Nuclear Warehouse

On the night of 31 January 2018, a team working for Mossad broke into a warehouse on the southern edge of Tehran. Inside were 32 safes and Iran's secret nuclear archive. They had six hours and twenty-nine minutes. They left with half a ton of paper. Three months later, Benjamin Netanyahu pulled back a curtain on live television and showed the world what they had taken. Eight days after that, Donald Trump announced that the United States was leaving the Iran nuclear deal, and cited the documents Israel had just published. This film follows the archive from a building you would drive past without noticing, through the raid and the escape. Chapters 0:00 The Archive Heist 1:05 A Building You Would Pass 2:29 Take the Originals 3:49 The Heat and the Paper 5:22 Beyond the Door 6:29 The Program in the Folders 8:40 Pull the Curtain 10:06 Eight Days Later 12:03 The Empty Space Key sources David E. Sanger & Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 15 July 2018 (via WRAL): the raid, the safes, the timings. https://www.wral.com/archive/17699588/ Times of Israel, 15 July 2018: the NYT and Washington Post briefings. https://www.timesofisrael.com/seized-... Ynet, 16 July 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2... Yossi Cohen, Channel 12 interview, key passages (Times of Israel, 11 June 2021): the operatives, the replica, the transmission, the escape. https://www.timesofisrael.com/key-pas... Jerusalem Post, 12 June 2021. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/ex-... Netanyahu's speech, 30 April 2018 (transcript). https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploa... The presentation slides (Iran Watch). https://www.iranwatch.org/sites/defau... Iran Watch, 4 May 2018. https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publica... Yonah Jeremy Bob & Ilan Evyatar, Target Tehran (2023), introduction. IAEA GOV/2015/68, 2 December 2015 (paragraphs 55-57, 84-88). https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/fi... IAEA Director General's statement, 9 May 2018. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/state... Time, 2 May 2018: the private Trump briefing. https://time.com/5262076/white-house-... White House, 12 January 2018 statement. https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/... White House, 8 May 2018 withdrawal remarks. https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/... White House, 2 November 2018 sanctions statement. https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/... IAEA GOV/INF/2019/8, 1 July 2019. https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/fi... IAEA GOV/2019/55, paragraphs 11-12. https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/fi... Credits Thumbnail photo of Ali Khamenei: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0 (modified). Thumbnail photos: the archive display, 30 April 2018 (news photograph via The Washington Post) and the Shorabad warehouse (Israeli Prime Minister's Office handout, modified), used for commentary. Photo of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Vienna talks, 14 July 2015: Austrian Foreign Ministry, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Trump and Netanyahu, 5 March 2018: Haim Zach / GPO. Released archive images: Israeli Prime Minister's Office (30 April 2018 presentation) and the Institute for Science and International Security (isis-online.org). Netanyahu's 30 April 2018 presentation: Israeli Prime Minister's Office broadcast. Yossi Cohen: Jerusalem Post conference footage, 2021. Trump's 8 May 2018 announcement and White House documents: public domain. IAEA documents: iaea.org. Satellite imagery: Esri World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics). Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Natural Earth, AWS Terrain Tiles. News photographs and broadcast stills are used for commentary and reporting. Stock photos and video: Pexels contributors (Pexels License). Sound effects: Mixkit (Mixkit License) and made for this film. Music was made for this film. Thumbnail photos: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0 (modified). Safes, warehouse and archive pages: Israeli Prime Minister's Office handouts (modified). AMAD slide: Iranian nuclear archive as released by Israel / Institute for Science and International Security. Narration: AI voice. Underlight: bringing overlooked stories into view. Subscribe for the next one. #Mossad #Iran #Israel #IranNuclearDeal #Documentary