Israel's Iran nuclear files 'real,' many new: Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, until last week director of the CIA, said today that Israel's newly released package of intelligence on an Iranian nuclear weapons program was authentic and much of it was new to US experts.

Pompeo met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday at Israeli military headquarters and was briefed on the material, which was released as Washington's new top diplomat flew home.

"We've known about this material for a while and we certainly discussed this material yesterday when we were together," Pompeo told reporters on his plane.

"It's been something that's been in the works for a while. I know that there are people talking about these documents not being authentic. I can confirm with you, for you, that these documents are real, they are authentic."
"We're still going through it, there's still a lot of work to do to figure out the scope and scale of it, but it is the case that there is new information about that program."