Iran Nuclear Deal: Another Day, Another Cave

Reports claim the U.S. surrendered on another key issue in its nuclear negotiations with Iran.

If, as Marx taught, history repeats itself "first as tragedy, then as farce," then Washington's latest reported concession proves that U.S.-led nuclear negotiations with Iran have moved from the tragic to the farcical.

After all, those negotiations have been driven overwhelmingly by fears that, despite Tehran's denials, its nuclear program is designed for military, not civilian, usage – in essence, to develop nuclear weapons. With them, the regime could fulfill its pledge to obliterate Israel, threaten the West and ward off outside pressure as it continues to sponsor terrorism and pursue regional hegemony.

Now, facing a June 30 deadline to complete an agreement, U.S. negotiators reportedly are dropping the central demand that, as part of an agreement, Iran must come clean about the "possible military dimensions," or PMDs, of its nuclear program – that is, the past weapons-related activities.

That Tehran continues to resist transparency is not surprising. For months, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and others have ruled out International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of its military sites and interviews with its nuclear scientists – two prerequisites for the agency to rule on the possible military dimensions issue.

That Washington is now caving may not be surprising, either, considering the long list of U.S. concessions since the U.S.-led "P5+1" negotiators (which also include Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia) have worked to turn an interim agreement with Iran in November of 2013 into a permanent one. Desperate for a deal that his aides have described as the foreign policy equivalent of his landmark health reform law, President Barack Obama has agreed to let Iran continue enriching uranium, continue research and development on advanced centrifuges that can enrich uranium at higher grades for potential bomb-making, retain some of its enriched uranium stockpile, keep some of its nuclear sites open, and continue work on its ballistic missile program.

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