U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd L) holds a negotiation meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) over Iran's nuclear programme in Lausanne March 18, 2015. Reuters/Brian Snyder
L.A. Times: In Iran nuclear talks, discord on inspecting undeclared facilities
Over the last 20 months, world powers seeking a nuclear deal with Iran have worked out tentative agreements to monitor and secure the country's known nuclear facilities to prevent it from building a bomb.
But as negotiations near a June 30 deadline, diplomats are still at odds over a tougher issue: how to keep tabs on military bases and other sites where the Iranians might secretly work on a weapon.
The six-nation diplomatic bloc negotiating with Iran wants United Nations nuclear inspectors to be able to poke around so-called undeclared facilities if they suspect nuclear work is going on. Such "challenge inspections" raise sensitive issues of national sovereignty and pride that set off years-long struggles with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, North Korea and Iran.
WNU Editor: This is one of many "sore points". My prediction .... the Iranians are not going to budge.
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