A satellite image of Iran’s Fordo uranium-enrichment facility in 2013. Photo: DigitalGlobe/Institute for Science and International Security
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon: Verifying Iran Nuclear Deal Not Possible, Experts Say
Past Iranian cheating to be codified by future accord
Despite promises by President Obama that Iranian cheating on a new treaty will be detected, verifying Tehran’s compliance with a future nuclear accord will be very difficult if not impossible, arms experts say.
“The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will not be effectively verifiable,” said Paula DeSutter, assistant secretary of state for verification, compliance, and implementation from 2002 to 2009.
Obama said Saturday that the framework nuclear deal reached in Switzerland would provide “unprecedented verification.”
International inspectors “will have unprecedented access to Iran’s nuclear program because Iran will face more inspections than any other country in the world,” he said in a Saturday radio address.
WNU Editor: I was about to post a few paragraphs on this topic .... but Bret Stephens does a better job in answering the question on verification .... Obama and the ‘Inevitable Critics’ (Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal).
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