Monday, March 2, 2015

Iran Nuke Pact: Apocalypse Slow

Dim Diplomacy: As Tehran recognizes U.S. desperation, a deal apparently on the table phases in nuclear weapons-building capability for Iran. These talks were always foolish, and such a pact will hamstring the next president.
For more than a year, President Obama, seeking a foreign policy legacy that distracts from his role in the rise of the Islamic State, has let the world's leading terrorist client state string the free world along as it moves closer to attaining nuclear weapons. 
John Kerry speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad 
Javad Zarif in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of the next round of
 nuclear discussions. AP
Now the Obama administration is working on the idea of Iran agreeing that for a decade or more it will eschew activities it could use to make an atom bomb, then be allowed to accelerate uranium enrichment after good behavior, diplomatic officials tell the Associated Press.
The White House might even be seeking such a deal before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress on March 3.
Enforcement would be the responsibility of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency. That's the group that a little more than five years ago was shocked when it visited a uranium enrichment facility that Tehran built underground into the side of a mountain on the grounds of a military base a few miles north of the city of Qum — and managed to keep secret for years.
The IAEA reported then, using "unusually tough language," as the New York Times put it, that it was "highly skeptical that Iran would have built the enrichment plant without also constructing a variety of other facilities that would give it an alternative way to produce nuclear fuel if its main centers were bombed."
The U.N. agency's report itself said the revelation of the facility's existence "reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction, and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities in Iran which had not been declared to the agency."
What progress on detection has been made in the five years since?
NOT MUCH! read on HERE.

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