Yesterday's New York Times ran an article on how Iran - even though the negotiations - is grabbing as much nuclear materials and parts and machinery as they can:
Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile Grows, Complicating Negotiations
With only one month left before a deadline to complete a nuclear deal with Iran, international inspectors have reported that Tehran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations, partially undercutting the Obama administration’s contention that the Iranian program had been “frozen” during that period.
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The overall increase in Iran’s stockpile poses a major diplomatic and political challenge for President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who flew back to the United States from Geneva on Monday for treatment of a broken leg he suffered in a bicycling accident, as they enter a 30-day push to try to complete an agreement by the end of June. In essence, the administration will have to convince Congress and America’s allies that Iran will shrink its stockpile by 96 percent in a matter of months after a deal is signed, even while it continues to produce new material and has demonstrated little success in reducing its current stockpile.
Iran - under the current agreement - is allowed 300 kilos of refined fuel. They have shown the inspectors that they have a bit more than 9,000 kilos. Wonder how much more has been locked into a janitorial closet somewhere... These are not people we can trust.
The joke in all of this is the response from our State Department - from The Washington Free Beacon:
Harf: We’re All ‘Totally Perplexed’ by NYT Story on Iran’s Increased Nuclear Stockpile
State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said she was “perplexed” by a New York Times story Tuesday on Iran’s 20 percent increase in nuclear fuel over the past 18 months.
The United States has been in negotiations with Iran for a final deal about their nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report on Friday that documented an increase of Iran’s nuclear fuel stockpile.
A reporter asked Harf if Iran’s increased stockpiles has complicated the current negotiations.
“Not at all. Our team read that story this morning and was quite frankly perplexed because the main contentions of it are totally inaccurate,” Harf said.
We are truly in the best of hands...
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