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Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - commemorative medal

Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - medal front
Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - medal back 
Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - medal brochure
A medal commemorating the Mossad operation in 2018 to obtain secret Iranian archive documents and files proving that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Front: A map of the Middle East, the upper halve of the medal depicts the design of a nuclear warhead, next to the storage warehouse. Beneath this appear the filing cabinets of the archive,

Back: The heavy door of a locked safe, beneath the hebrew Bible verse: "For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers" (Proverbs 11:14). At the bottom a morse code of the letters IVIV. According to Israeli sources and reputable reports, the Morse code spells out the phrase:"Israel can rely only on itself", a direct quote attributed to David Ben-Gurion, Israel`s first Prime Minister.

Size of the medal: 60 mm
Made of metal, available with silver colored or copper colored plating
Design: Roy Segev
Producer: Avner Avraham
Manufacturer: Ilan Zechovoy
For purchase visit : www.spymedals.com 
Source: מדליית מבצע הברחת ארכיון הגרעין האיראני | Spy Legends Israel

About the operation

Spies from Israel`s Mossad agency discovered the top-secret location of a warehouse used to store Iran`s nuclear weapons files, broke into the building, took half a ton of documents and managed to smuggle them back to Israel that same night. The delay in making the material public was due to the time it took to analyze the documents, the vast majority of which were in Persian.
Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - Netanyahu 
Netanyahu described the archive as looking like a 'dilapidated warehouse' in the Shorabad District in southern Tehran.

'Now, from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran's secret atomic archives locked in massive files,' he said. He showed a picture of long rows of safes and said that the agents managed to bring back 'half a ton of the material' consisting of 55,000 pages and another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.

The cache, he said, contained 'incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.
Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - the warehouse Smuggling Iran's Atomic Archive - drawing
The warehouse Iranian design of a nuclear warhead

Sources: https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-stole-irans-nuke-archive-and-smuggled-it-back-to-israel-the-same-night/