What shouldn’t go unnoticed about Iran & the nuclear deal
4 May 2018-- With only days left to U.S. President Donald Trump’s May 12th Iran nuclear deal deadline, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif posted a YouTube video raising allegations and even resorting to low-level remarks aimed at the U.S. President.
What must not go unnoticed after recent revelations of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program is the fact that Tehran has actually not been loyal to the spirit of the Iran deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The JCPOA spirit calls for promoting peace and stability, in which Iran has a dismal record considering its ongoing meddling in Syria and Yemen, alongside its destructive role in Iraq and Lebanon.
Furthermore, the IAEA has been utterly denied any access to military sites where Iran is most likely cloaking its nuclear weapons program related work related. This goes against any claims of “very strict monitoring of the facts” as recently raised by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
Parchin is one particular site where Iran is known to have carried out tests with nuclear warheads detonators.
Iran raised and sanitized Parchin for years before its own engineers took environment samples, later examined by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This also goes against the “anytime, anywhere” concept claimed by former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry.
The “IAEA detected the presence of anthropogenically processed (‘man-made’) particles of natural uranium” in the samples, according to the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
Interesting is the fact that the IAEA later acknowledged not taking the step to ask the Iranians access military sites, knowing Tehran’s refusal would leave the agency no choice but determining Iran in non-compliance with the JCPOA.
Additionally, the fact that a secret archive of sensitive files and disks documenting Iran’s path to produce nuclear weapons, coming after the JCPOA implementation is concrete proof Iran again violated the controversial agreement.
Paragraph T of Annex 1 of the JCPOA clearly bans Tehran from “designing, developing, acquiring, or using computer models to simulate nuclear explosive devices.”
Tehran hiding such highly important documents and evidence raises further suspicions about the regime’s supposed devotion and cooperation with the JCPOA altogether.
Iran is also on the ropes and facing accusations of seeking to outsource its nuclear weapons programs in North Korea and Syria. Der Spiegel in Germany and the Institute for Science and International Security both published a variety of investigative articles shedding light specifically on an underground nuclear site in the town of Qusayr, Syria, near Lebanon’s border.
Iran has also been very active in procuring material from Germany needed for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Both such measures are in violation of the Iran nuclear deal.
A 2017 German intelligePhotonce report issued by the State of Hamburg emphasizes “there is no evidence of a complete about-face in Iran’s atomic policies in 2016.”
Iran had also acquired “51 special valves” intended for the “sanctioned Arak heavy water reactor,” a facility able to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, the same report revealed.
These are only a small number of JCPOA violations by the Iranian regime and the list continues as we speak. Iranian officials and apologists are raising a large amount of brouhaha about the consequences of the U.S. pulling out of the accord.
The necessary conclusion is that Iran desperately needs the JCPOA to remain intact and is terrified of such an outcome. This is of grave importance for Tehran, knowing the already simmering atmosphere of protests inside the country will only escalate and threaten the very pillars of their fragile rule.
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