Washington Post: Kerry says focus in Iran nuclear talks is on the future, not the past
Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Tuesday said the United States is more concerned about preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons than it is with getting Tehran to publicly acknowledge past work to develop a bomb.
“We’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another. We know what they did,” he said in a video call with reporters at the State Department. Kerry spoke from his Boston home, where he has been recovering after breaking his leg in a bicycling accident in Europe.
“It’s critical to us to know that, going forward, those activities have been stopped and that we can account for that in a legitimate way,” he said. “That clearly is one of the requirements, in our judgment, for what has to be achieved in order to have a legitimate agreement.”
WNU Editor: It appears that US Sec. of State John Kerry does not believe in the old line that if you "ignore the past you are doomed to repeat it". This is also a major reversal from past U.S. policy on the need for full disclosure.
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