“This deal is not based on trust. It’s based on unprecedented verification,” President Obama said in his Rose Garden speech announcing the framework agreement. Later he added, “If Iran cheats, the world will know it.”
Those claims seemed to be backed up by a State Department fact sheet which offered a long list of inspections and transparency measures Iran had supposedly agreed to including monitoring of Iran’s uranium mines, mills and centrifuges. According to the fact sheet, Iran had agreed to IAEA inspections of “suspicious sites” located “anywhere in the country.”
On Monday, the NY Times noted that Iran had already said it would not allow inspections of Iranian military sites. And today Michael Rubin of Commentary highlights a Fars News report in which the Iranian Minister of Defense flatly denies Iran will ever allow such inspections:(READ MORE)
