Iran Lied: Another Sign We’ve Been Had

The massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., this week overshadowed another major foreign policy story: The International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on Iran. The Associated Press reported:

Iran did work related to developing nuclear arms in the past, the U.N. atomic agency concluded in a report Wednesday that wraps up a near decade of investigations and opens the way to implementing a landmark deal aimed at reducing any future nuclear threat from Tehran.

Iran has consistently denied any interest in nuclear arms or past work on such weapons, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi told Iranian television that the International Atomic Energy Agency report “confirms the peaceful nature” [of] Iran’s nuclear program.

But the report contested that view and came down on the side of U.S. allegations, saying the agency “assesses that a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device were conducted in Iran prior to the end of 2003 as a coordinated effort, and some activities took place” up to 2009.

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In other words, we know definitively that Iran lied about its prior efforts to build a nuclear weapon. (So much for the phony fatwa President Obama kept referring to that was supposed to have banned the quest for nuclear weapons.) “It is a major flaw in the Iran deal that sanctions relief doesn’t depend on Tehran fully and honestly disclosing the nature and extent of its nuclear weapons-related activities. Iran will now get hundreds of billions of dollars without ever admitting its role in developing nuclear weapons,” sanctions expert Mark Dubowitz says. “Its track record of nuclear mendacity is not a good sign for future transparency and faithful compliance.”

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