A previously secret deal between the global Atomic Energy Agency and Iran gives the Persian country the power to hire its own investigators and buy its own equipment to monitor a site where nuclear weapons production has been suspected.
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Under the agreement, foreign affiliates of US companies may be licensed by OFAC to build relationships with their Iranian counterparts, he said, but even that will be complicated because they will need to operate independently so that US persons don’t facilitate or approve of such business.
Authorities said Fogle offered to pay adult prostitutes a finder’s fee if they could connect him with minors for sex acts, including some as young as 14 or 15 years old.
If Iranian scientists and military officers are required to be interviewed by inspectors from the United Nations who are looking at Iran’s previous nuclear work, referencing a Wall Street Journal article that asserts inspectors have been denied access. And look, the results are already predetermined because the reason they’re inspecting Parchin is because Iran has to account for past military activity.
“This side agreement shows that true verification is a sham, and it begs the question of what else the administration is keeping from Congress”, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority leader, said, according to the Times of Israel. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Parchin document doesn’t differ from other arrangements.
Administration officials have briefed lawmakers on their contents, but Republicans have expressed alarm over the provisions, such as one that would allow Iran to hand over samples of soil at the military facility, which critics say is akin to professional athletes providing their own urine samples for drug testing.
Obama is likely to veto that measure, but Congress could still override such a veto – and kill the Iran deal – with a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
So Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, which is why all IAEA inspectors will be barred from this nuclear site, which happens to be military.
Lopez described the Iranians’ transparency and honesty about its program as nonexistent. The IAEA has also repeatedly cited evidence, based on satellite images, of possible attempts to sanitize the site since the alleged work stopped more than a decade ago.
“There are other issues with Iran, deep issues, with which we disagree, particularly their destabilizing activities in the region”.
They’ll also have to undertake due diligence to make sure the Iranian businesses have no relations with designated persons in Iran subject to US sanctions, such as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp.
And determining the actual state of Iran’s nuclear weaponization efforts is a crucial part of establishing an inspection baseline for the nuclear deal.
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Administration officials have said the documentation of the deal between the IAEA and Tehran is not theirs to turnover. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, vowed to use leverage in a spending bill this fall to withhold funding from the IAEA unless Congress is provided details of the agreement with the IAEA. “We have no place in this country to disqualify experienced, caring people who want to use their knowledge in the service of the country, whatever political affiliation they may come from”.
