The Mossad constructed a full-scale replica of an Iranian nuclear archive facility in Africa and rehearsed an operation there before carrying it out in Tehran, former Mossad director Yossi Cohen revealed. On the night of January 31, 2018, fewer than two dozen Mossad agents entered a warehouse in the Kahrizak district of southern Tehran, overrode the alarm system, and cut through six of thirty-two safes. They worked for six hours and twenty-nine minutes, removing approximately 50,000 paper documents and 55,000 additional pages of files stored on 183 CD-ROMs. The archive contained tens of thousands of files related to Project Amad, Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program. Cohen insisted on extracting original documents, stating, “That way, neither the Iranians nor the international community could claim that we had fabricated them.” Netanyahu publicly displayed portions of the material weeks later. The Trump administration cited the intelligence as evidence that Iran had entered the 2015 nuclear deal in bad faith, leading to U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions.