By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--August 30, 2018
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Iran continues to fulfil the key requirements of the 2015 nuclear deal, the United Nations atomic agency said Thursday, despite the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement. The report comes as tensions between Iran and the West have sharpened, amidst rising U.S. economic pressure on Tehran and allegations that Tehran was involved in a terror plot in Europe. In a confidential quarterly report sent to member states, seen by The Wall Street Journal, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran was honoring its pledges to limit stockpiles of key nuclear materials and maintain IAEA inspectors’ access to sites. It signaled no other breach of the accord’s requirements by Tehran. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium rose to 139 kilograms from 124 kilograms in May, but remained well within the 202-kilogram limit. A kilogram is 2.2 pounds.See the problem with this? John Kerry, who spent most of the negotiations acting as Iran’s lawyer vis-a-vis the European nations involved, agreed to an arbitrary limit of 202 kilograms of enriched uranium. Supposedly that’s because this level is sufficient for peaceful uses of nuclear energy but not for nuclear weapons.
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