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AFP: Iran still abiding by nuclear deal terms: IAEA
Iran is sticking to the terms of its nuclear deal with world powers, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, despite ongoing uncertainty over its future.
The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency showed that Iran was still complying with the key parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed in 2015 by Iran and the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany.
It comes despite the future of the deal being thrown into doubt after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the pact in May and re-imposed US sanctions.
The latest report says the IAEA had had access "to all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit".
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Update: Iran Continues to Comply With Nuclear Deal, U.N. Atomic Agency Says (WSJ).
WNU Editor: The language of the report is very revealing .... the IAEA had had access "to all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit". But they do not mention that all Iranian military sites that have been suspected of doing nuclear work in the past are off-limits to these inspectors.In short .... the inspectors are told by Tehran what sites they can visit, and that is it.
The IAEA has access to all of the sites that are covered by the agreement. They've always said that. If you think there's nuclear weapons related work going on at other military sites that the Iranians have declared off limits then you should show us the evidence. No one's been able to so far, so I think its's till fair to say that Iran is a non-nuclear power stuck between two nuclear powers neither of which are signers of the NPT, while Iran is not only a signer, but also, as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, accepted additional IAEA protocols that will remain in effect after the deal expires. That is, unless the neo-cons who have taken over Trump Administration foreign policy succeed in totally destroying the agreement. In that case, all bets are off, including whether or not there'll be yet another Mid East war.
ReplyDeleteCarl, WNU is correct, as there are military bases the Iranians have declared off limits and no nuclear related work done at those off limit sites. IAEA has limited access to Pachin which has had extensive nuclear work in the past.
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"Last week, the Institute for Science and International Security, a group of leading scientists that has argued for stricter monitoring of the Iran deal, released a report calling on the United States and other parties to the nuclear deal to require the IAEA to request access to the Parchin facility. The group believes Iran might have used the facility to conduct tests to see how certain materials react under high pressure, conditions similar to a nuclear explosion.
Iran denied inspectors access to Parchin for years, then finally granted access in 2015 after undertaking extensive construction work at the site, according to satellite imagery studied by the IAEA. Before the nuclear deal was approved, the IAEA agreed to accept limited access to Parchin in the future and to allow Iranian personnel — not the agency's own inspectors — to collect environmental samples at the facility for testing.
"The lack of ongoing access to Parchin calls into question the adequacy of the verification of the [nuclear deal] and the deal's long-term utility to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons," the report said."
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-iran-nuclear-20170830-story.html
Everyone knows the LA Times is a neocon mouthpiece...please try again.
ReplyDeleteAttacking the messenger is the ancient technique of hiding the fact you don’t know what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteDuly noted you don’t have a clue.
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ReplyDeleteAnon 7:11PM,
By your comment on the LA Times, I see you don't live in this country, do you?
ReplyDeleteAha! Iran signed the NPT. Well...that cinches it.
Carl, about that second hand bridge in Brooklyn and the documents you and the seller signed....real ink? Or the disappearing variety? Have you checked lately? I mean...he seemed like a trustworthy soul, agreed. But ya know....suits and fancy cars can be rented by the hour these days. And please don't forget obama's SOP; an ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. Just as an aside Carl, how does one go about verifying these off limits sites and what may or may not be going on inside of them? Contact Mossad, you say? Send in The Marines?
Roger - nonsense.
DeleteAs every good citizen of the World knows, Iran is a misunderstood nation. All that terror funding got confused in the press. They are not funding murder. ..noooo they're funding education - from Math to cooking. You should try their famous salad dressing, I think it's called 1000 Ayatollahs - made with extra Virgin olive oil and a hint of crude oil.
Roger, as you know, trust isn't earned but given away for free (and sometimes large cash payments through cargo planes). All is good here, do not feel concerned. Nuclear weapons are but toys. The real power is in the pencil - that's why north Korea also opened that pencil factory underneath that mountain. Cannot risk losing your pencil factories. It's big business too.
I think the Iran nuclear deal can be summed by saying that if Iran doesn't want to ddvelop nuclear weapons there's no problem with the deal. If Iran does want to develop nuclear weapons, they can do so easily at any time and there's not a thing in this deal that can stop them. Basically as a mechanism to stop or even slow down Iran from developing nuclear weapons should they choose to do so it's worthless.
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