Teh One Who Knocks
09-01-2016, 10:45 AM
FOX News
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The U.S. and the world powers in last year’s land mark nuclear deal with Iran reportedly agreed “in secret” to allow Iran to dodge some restrictions in the agreement to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief when some of the economic sanctions were lifted.
Reuters reported Thursday that the findings are based off information from several officials involved in the negotiations. The full details are set to be published by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
The group’s president David Albright told Reuters that the “exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran.”
Albright had worked as an inspector with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency that investigated former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, according to Reuters.
According to the report, some of the exemptions allowed Iran to exceed the limitations on how much low-enriched uranium could be kept at its nuclear facilities. The uranium can be configured into weapons-grade uranium. The report said that the U.S. and its negotiating partners -- Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- approved the exemptions.
A senior official with knowledge of the deal was cited in the report as saying that if the world powers didn’t allow these exemptions, then some of Iran’s nuclear facilities wouldn’t have been in compliance with the nuclear accord by the Jan. 16 deadline for Tehran to have its sanctions lifted.
The White House has said previously that there were no secret loopholes made in the Iran deal, Reuters reported.
However, according to Albright’s report, President Barack Obama told Congress of the exemptions on Jan. 16 after they had already been granted. Congress was sent the confidential documents on the same day.
The White House has contended that Congress had been briefed “frequently and comprehensively” on the nuclear deal. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, told Reuters he had never received any briefings on the exemptions.
The world powers had also agreed to several other exemptions to help Tehran meet the relief deadline, including shipping 50 tons of material that could be used for nuclear weapons production to Oman, which the storage remained in Iranian control, according to the report.
Also, the world powers allowed Iran to operate 19 radiation containment chambers larger than the agreement had set. The chambers can be used to handle radioactive material.
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The U.S. and the world powers in last year’s land mark nuclear deal with Iran reportedly agreed “in secret” to allow Iran to dodge some restrictions in the agreement to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief when some of the economic sanctions were lifted.
Reuters reported Thursday that the findings are based off information from several officials involved in the negotiations. The full details are set to be published by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
The group’s president David Albright told Reuters that the “exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran.”
Albright had worked as an inspector with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency that investigated former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, according to Reuters.
According to the report, some of the exemptions allowed Iran to exceed the limitations on how much low-enriched uranium could be kept at its nuclear facilities. The uranium can be configured into weapons-grade uranium. The report said that the U.S. and its negotiating partners -- Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- approved the exemptions.
A senior official with knowledge of the deal was cited in the report as saying that if the world powers didn’t allow these exemptions, then some of Iran’s nuclear facilities wouldn’t have been in compliance with the nuclear accord by the Jan. 16 deadline for Tehran to have its sanctions lifted.
The White House has said previously that there were no secret loopholes made in the Iran deal, Reuters reported.
However, according to Albright’s report, President Barack Obama told Congress of the exemptions on Jan. 16 after they had already been granted. Congress was sent the confidential documents on the same day.
The White House has contended that Congress had been briefed “frequently and comprehensively” on the nuclear deal. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, told Reuters he had never received any briefings on the exemptions.
The world powers had also agreed to several other exemptions to help Tehran meet the relief deadline, including shipping 50 tons of material that could be used for nuclear weapons production to Oman, which the storage remained in Iranian control, according to the report.
Also, the world powers allowed Iran to operate 19 radiation containment chambers larger than the agreement had set. The chambers can be used to handle radioactive material.