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tencats

(567 posts) Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:03 PM Aug 2015

No, AP, Iran doesn’t get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities

I'm posting this as an update to this posting here that started yesterday.

Is it a good idea for the UN/IAEA to allow Iran to inspect it's own sites for wrongdoing?
Because according to AP, documents leaked today show that the IN/IAEA is going to allow Iran to inspect some of it's own nuclear sites with Iranian inspectors and then submit pictures and videos to the IAEA. UN inspectors will not be allowed on-site at any time.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027091828#post20

This today from Juan Cole | (Informed Comment)

No, AP, Iran doesn’t get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities under Deal

Eminent Iran and security expert Gary Sick pointed out in an email late Wednesday that the Associated Press just ran a shamefully inaccurate story alleging that under the UN Security Council deal with Iran, Iran would carry out some of the inspections of their own “sensitive sites.”

The accord actually provides for the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency always to be present at such inspections. The reason for the presence of Iranian experts is that there is a long history of outside nuclear teams being sent in by the Great Powers for espionage. I.e., the Iranian inspectors are there to keep an eye on the UN inspectors, not to cover up Iranian activities (to which the IAEA will have full access). The 1990s UN inspections of Iraq were infiltrated, for instance, by US intelligence.

Sick points to a note put up 3 weeks ago by the Arms Control Association’s entitled “P5+1 and Iran Nuclear Deal Alert” (July 30):

Would the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] Depend on Iran for Nuclear Residue Testing? No.

Read it all here:http://www.juancole.com/2015/08/inspect-nuclear-facilities.html