Don’t Trust Tehran

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Ultimately, there would be formal acceptance of Iran as a nuclear power under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran would be allowed to have an unrestricted industrial-scale uranium enrichment program that experts believe couldn’t be rolled back. The “phased-in” deal would see a gradual elimination of the sanctions that have been vital in bringing Iran to the table, together with a gradual lifting of restrictions on its uranium enrichment program, including even at weapons-grade levels, allowing it to accelerate and weaponize its program in the latter years of the agreement — and rapidly produce nuclear arms thereafter.

These are just the latest one-sided concessions. According to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a think tank that promotes a robust sanctions regime, the so-called Interim Deal reached in Geneva in January 2014 saw the world powers agree that Iran could continue to enrich uranium and keep it on Iranian soil, in flagrant contravention of a series of UN resolutions. Previous demands that the Fordow uranium-enrichment facility be shuttered along with the Arak heavy-water reactor (not needed to produce nuclear energy, but integral to producing nuclear weapons) have been relinquished. Moreover, Iran was allowed to continue its research and development efforts into advanced centrifuges and its ballistic missile program, the ultimate delivery mechanism of a nuclear weapon. These concessions were rightly viewed as rewards for Iranian belligerence, stonewalling, and intransigence.
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