No Israeli prime minister has made such abundant, flagrant and public use of intelligence coups scored by Mossad and Military Intelligence as Benjamin Netanyahu has. He followed his viral Iranian nuclear files performance of April 30, using a simulated backdrop of file cabinets to reveal Mossad’s success in removing an Iranian nuclear archive from Tehran to Tel Aviv, with an appearance before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27. As expected, it was another chapter in Netanyahu’s harsh indictment of the Islamic Republic.

Netanyahu proved, once again, that he is an oratorical genius and an audiovisual wizard when he held up photographs and maps of what he described as a secret Iranian nuclear facility in Tehran and three long-range missile bases that Iran maintains, courtesy of Hezbollah, adjacent to Beirut’s international airport.

Netanyahu was undeterred by a US intelligence source who told Reuters that the prime minister's comments were “somewhat misleading.” “We have known about this facility for some time, and it’s full of file cabinets and paper, not aluminum tubes for centrifuges,” the source said. That US media sidelined his speech in favor of the dramatic Senate confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh did not terribly upset Netanyahu. The Israeli leader took the podium in New York, but his target audience was almost 6,000 miles away, watching television at prime time in Israel.

Netanyahu's aides' success in moving his scheduled speech forward, to the ideal hour of 8:00 p.m. Israel time, the start of the evening news, provided him with the effect he sought to create. It was further affirmation of his standing as Israel’s supreme leader and a display of the noose he is tightening around the neck of the Iranian regime, enthusiastically cheered on by the White House.