The dilapidated warehouse in southern Tehran seemed an unlikely place for Iran to store its most sensitive nuclear secrets.
But according to Israeli officials, the storage facility in the Shorabad neighbourhood had been chosen precisely because of its unassuming appearance.
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Iran’s government reportedly feared that the files might be found by international inspectors if they were kept in major bases and so they hid them in the Tehran warehouse.
Israeli officials said it was this act of centralisation that made it possible for Mossad spies to pull off the seemingly-impossible: snatching half a tonne of Iranian documents in a single night and secreting them out of the capital and out of the country. …
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