“The documents we obtained from the Zionist regime relate to information about their nuclear facilities,” Khatib told the IRIB News on Sunday, a day after sources familiar with the matter broke the news.
“These documents and other strategic records of the regime will enhance the country’s offensive capabilities.”
On Saturday, informed sources told the IRIB News that the intelligence breach was one of the biggest blows to the occupying regime.
The sources said that although the operation to obtain the documents was carried out some time ago, the sheer volume of materials and the need to transport them safely into Iran necessitated a news blackout to ensure they reached the designated protected locations.
They also noted that the abundance of documents is so vast that reviewing them, along with viewing images and videos, has consumed a significant amount of time.
Khatib said the “comprehensive and complex operation” was carried out inside the occupied territories and succeeded in transferring a trove of “strategic, operational, and scientific information” from the occupying regime to Iran.
The revelation comes more than two weeks after Israeli regime authorities announced the arrest of two men on suspicion of committing “security crimes” on behalf of Iran.
According to PressTV, however, Khatib said the transmission methods remain protected and will not be released anytime soon. “But we will publish the documents soon, InshaAllah (God willing),” he added.
Israel, widely regarded as one of the nuclear powers, launched its nuclear program in 1952 with technological support from France and the United States.
The first known nuclear weapons were developed by the regime around 1967-1968, according to various military think tanks. After that, the production accelerated rapidly, without any outcry.
In 1986, a technician at the Dimona nuclear facility, Mordechai Vanunu, exposed the regime's clandestine nuclear program, for which he in 1988 was convicted of treason and sentenced to 18 years.
