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April 18, 2024
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Nuclear Experts Rip Iran Inspections Requirements, State Department Won’t Comment on Secret Side Deals
Team Smart Power claims the Iran deal, which they’re railroading through the UN as a potentially unconstitutional means of short-circuiting Congress, offers a robust regime of inspections — even as the Obama administration has embarrassingly retreated from its previous “anytime, anywhere” rhetoric. Critics say the built-in delay period of up to 24 days between requested inspections and final access offers Iran innumerable opportunities to cheat, as is their perennial wont. Nuclear officials with special expertise in dealing with the Iranian regime are siding with opponents of the agreement on this crucial point, the New York Times reports:
Indeed they are. But as many observers have already noted, the Iran deal is so astonishingly generous to Tehran that they may be tempted not to cheat, if only to preserve what the agreement affords them: A fully intact nuclear program with automatically sunsetting restrictions that will all but guarantee status as an internationally-blessed threshold nuclear state within 10-15 years. Plus, it now appears that there are additional secret giveaways buried within the accord, to which Congress won’t have access. The State Department won’t deny the existence of these hidden agreements:
One of the provisions of the Corker-Cardin review bill, which I’ve defended, is that it requires the administration to submit every single letter of the finalized accord to Capitol Hill for review. If special, unreviewable wink-and-nod side deals exist — and the dodge-fest above suggests they do — that’s just another reason for Congress to torpedo this disaster. Not to mention reports of Iran’s foreign minister bragging that the regime has “secured its right to deny access to its sites for nuclear inspection and to ballistic missiles as part of a deal concluded with six world powers,” in addition to Khamenei’s latest “disturbing” anti-American rhetoric, and top officials’ vow to use Iran’s sanctions relief windfall to fund terrorism. A new Pew poll shows public support for this agreement underwater by ten points among Americans who’ve heard anything at all about the issue. A majority says they’re not confident the West will be able to fully monitor Iran’s activities, and a huge majority doesn’t trust Iran to abide by the terms. That cynicism is shared by the nuclear experts quotes in the Times above. I’ll leave you with this minor detail about a high-ranking Al Qaeda commander who was killed in a US strike in Syria earlier this month. Ta da: