According to the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the UN-linked international nonproliferation watchdog—the Islamic Republic continues to violate the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement. Majid Rafizadeh explains:
[Iran’s] ruling mullahs have increased their total stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 1.1 tons to 1.73 tons as of May 20, 2020. This is approximately eight times more than what the regime was allowed to maintain under the . . . nuclear deal, [under which] Tehran had been permitted to keep a stockpile of 447 pounds . . . and enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent. Iran is now enriching uranium up to the purity of 4.5 percent, and possesses more heavy water, [an important material for some kinds of nuclear reactors], than would have been permitted under the nuclear agreement.
Additionally, Tehran is still not allowing the IAEA to inspect its sites, an ongoing problem that, according to the recent report, has reportedly now raised “serious concerns” for international inspectors.
In addition, [Tehran] has refused to allow the IAEA fully to inspect its [suspected nuclear] sites, particularly those at military bases, where nuclear activities are most likely being carried out. . . . [O]ne of the most dangerous concessions that the Obama administration gave to the Iranian government was surrendering to its demand that military sites would be out of the IAEA’s reach. Because of this concession, at various high-profile sites such as the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, the regime has been free to engage in nuclear activities without the risk of inspection.
Are the U.S. and the UN happy to keep sitting idly by while the mullahs inch dangerously closer to a nuclear weapons breakout?
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