{"id":632070,"date":"2026-09-30T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:04:18","slug":"israeli-intelligence-shows-iran-renewing-nuclear-program-benjamin-netanyahu-tells-mbz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632070\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli intelligence shows Iran renewing nuclear program, Benjamin Netanyahu tells MBZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented United Arab Emirates President Sheikh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-910022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan<\/a> with new Israeli intelligence according to which Iran is renewing its progress in its nuclear program according to a report overnight Wednesday by CNN, citing an Israeli official familiar with the details of Sunday&#8217;s Abu Dhabi meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the information Netanyahu presented included details about new construction work at the mountainous site known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-908107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pickaxe Mountain<\/a>,\u201d about 140 miles south of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The site is considered a possible key location in Iran\u2019s efforts to restore its nuclear program. However, the report does not determine that uranium enrichment is already being carried out at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It was also reported, citing two sources, that a senior Saudi security official also participated in the meeting, a detail that was not included in the official announcements about the visit. Saudi Arabia later denied this report.<\/p>\n<p>According to one of the sources, the participants also discussed the Houthis in Yemen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-908223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bab al-Mandab Strait<\/a>, and the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The same source said that Netanyahu presented Israel\u2019s assessment that Iran could initiate an attack in the region in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan with new Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,87,92,46,206374,43,1078,79],"class_list":["post-632070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-israel","tag-mohammed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan","tag-news","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}