Iranians are famously savvy negotiators, so recent revelations that, under the U.S.-led global nuclear deal, Iran has far more leeway than we had thought to hide its nuclear progress and test ballistic missiles shouldn’t surprise us. It should, however, alarm us. The revelations – reflecting the precise wording of resolutions by the International Atomic Energy …
If, as Marx taught, history repeats itself “first as tragedy, then as farce,” then Washington’s latest reported concession proves that U.S.-led nuclear negotiations with Iran have moved from the tragic to the farcical. After all, those negotiations have been driven overwhelmingly by fears that, despite Tehran’s denials, its nuclear program is designed for military, not …
“Interviews with scientists is completely out of the question and so is inspection of military sites,” Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s senior negotiator on its nuclear program, announced on state television on Saturday, just as Secretary of State John Kerry was conferring with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a final push to meet the June …
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