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IAEA Tells Congressmen of Two Secret Side Deals to Iran Agreement That Won’t Be Shared with Congress


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Fred Fleitz

July 22, 2015

 

Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) issued a press release today on a startling discovery they made during a July 17 meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna: There are two secret side deals to the nuclear agreement with Iran that will not be shared with other nations, with Congress, or with the U.S. public.

 

One of these side deals concerns inspection of the Parchin military base, where Iran reportedly has conducted explosive testing related to nuclear-warhead development. The Iranian government has refused to allow the IAEA to visit this site. Over the last several years, Iran has taken steps to clean up evidence of weapons-related activity at Parchin.

 

The other secret side deal concerns how the IAEA and Iran will resolve outstanding issues on possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s nuclear program. In late 2013, Iran agreed to resolve IAEA questions about nuclear weapons-related work in twelve areas. Iran only answered questions in one of these areas and rejected the rest as based on forgeries and fabrications.

 

Former Department of Energy official William Tobey explained in a July 15 Wall Street Journal op-ed why it is crucial that Iran resolve the PMD issue. According to Tobey, “for inspections to be meaningful, Iran would have to completely and correctly declare all its relevant nuclear activities and procurement, past and present.”

 

According to the Cotton/Pompeo press release, there will be a secret, opaque procedure to verify Iran’s compliance with these side agreements. The press release says:

 

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Iran Deal’s Debut: Tepid Support, Technical Problems, Teheran Gloats

Rick Richman | @jpundit07.22.2015 - 10:15 AM

On the day the Iran deal was announced, Republican Senator Tom Cotton analogized itto the big spending packages Congress passes in the dead of night, where the good stuff is announced on day one followed by the people discovering the details hidden in the arcane language. He predicted Americans would not like a deal in which “a terrorist-sponsoring, anti-American outlaw regime will keep its nuclear program, and we will eliminate sanctions … [and] even the conventional arms embargo, [and] the ballistic missile embargo, will be lifted … [so] if Iran follows the agreement down to every specific detail, they will still be a nuclear-armed state with a ballistic missile program, a healthy economy whose military has been enriched with tens of billions of dollars, Scissors-32x32.pnghttps://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/07/22/iran-nuclear-deal-rocky-debut/

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Intel Assesses Iran Deal, Without Really Assessing Iran

Eli Lake

Jul 31, 2015

The intelligence assessment provided to Congress to support the Iran nuclear deal has a hole: It fails to examine the intentions of Iran's regime to actually comply with the agreement over time.

 

U.S. intelligence officials and members of Congress who have reviewed the document -- known as a classified annex -- tell me it says that compliance can be verified and that U.S. intelligence can reasonably detect a secret attempt to build a bomb.

 

But according to the officials and lawmakers, its judgments are based on the assumption that Iran adheres to strict monitoring and transparency measures over the life of the agreement, in some cases up to 20 years. The annex does not examine how Iran's leadership will change over the course of the agreement and the chances that Iran's leaders will allow the same strict monitoring of its declared nuclear program in 10 or 15 years.

 

This could be a problem considering Iran's history with arms control agreements. Tehran never adhered to the terms of an inspections agreement it made in 2003 with the International Atomic Energy Agency known as the additional protocol. To this day the agency has outstanding questions Iran is supposed to answer in the coming months about activities and sites where it denied access to inspectors.

 

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Also Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal

Josh Rogin

July 31 2015

 

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According to both lawmakers, Audibert expressed support for the deal overall, but also directly disputed Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions.

 

“He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again and that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told me in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”

 

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