Reuters: U.S. asks if Iran military sites to be checked under nuclear deal
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States wants to know if the United Nations atomic watchdog plans to inspect Iranian military sites to verify Tehran's compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Tuesday.
Haley will meet with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials in Vienna on Wednesday for what she described as a fact-finding mission, which is part of President Donald Trump's review of the deal Iran made with world powers to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of most sanctions.
"If you look ... at past Iranian behavior, what you've seen is there have been covert actions at military sites, at universities, things like that," Haley, a member of Trump's cabinet, told Reuters in an interview.
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Update #1: UN ambassador says Trump has not decided his next move on Iran nuclear deal (Washington Post)
Update #2: Weapons Experts: IAEA Needs Full Access to Parchin to Understand Iran’s Nuclear Program (The Tower).
WNU Editor: The Iranians have already stated their position on inspections .... IRGC Commander: Iran Will Never Allow Inspections of Military Nuclear Sites (The Tower). This is why the Iranian nuclear deal is a problem. When President Reagan coined the term "trust but verified" 30 years ago when it comes to nuclear agreements, it became a model on how nuclear agreements should be done. The failure by the Obama administration to pursue this condition is something that I never understood when the Iranian deal was signed, and even less today.
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