The long-awaited nuclear deal between Iran and the western world had finally been reached. As expected, Iran will seemingly get what they want.
As far as those nuclear inspections go, it also appears as if Iran, one of the world’s States Sponsors of Terrorism, will not be pressed to allow the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to randomly conduct spot checks of their nuclear facilities.Now we wait to see what Israel does. Iran has openly threatened the state of Israel with annihilation.
Republicans like Rep.Ron DeSantis are not too happy about the deal.
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Iran and six world powers, including the United States, reached a formal agreement early Tuesday on the future of Tehran’s nuclear program.
Diplomats from both sides confirmed the deal had been reached after the latest round of negotiations in Vienna, Austria blew through four deadlines, the latest of which was the end of the day Monday. A final meeting between the parties was set for 10:30 a.m. local time Tuesday (4:30 a.m. ET), with a formal press conference expected to follow. Official terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.The last major sticking point appeared to be whether international weapons inspectors would be given access to Iranian nuclear sites. A senior Western diplomat told the Associated Press the deal includes a compromise between Washington and Tehran that would allow U.N. inspectors to press for visits to Iranian military sites as part of their monitoring duties.
However, access at will to any site would not necessarily be granted and even if so, could be delayed, a condition that critics of the deal are sure to seize on as possibly giving Tehran time to cover any sign of non-compliance with its commitments.
Under the deal, Tehran would have the right to challenge the U.N request and an arbitration board composed of Iran and the six world powers that negotiated with it would have to decide on the issue. Such an arrangement would still be a notable departure from assertions by top Iranian officials that their country would never allow the U.N’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into such sites. Iran has argued that such visits by the IAEA would be a cover for spying on its military secrets.
While access is a key part of monitoring envisaged cuts on Tehran’s present nuclear activities, it is also important for the IAEA as it tries to kick-start nearly a decade of stalled attempts to probe allegations that Iran worked on nuclear arms. Washington says that Iran must cooperate with the IAEA’s probe as part of any overall deal before all sanctions on it are lifted.
The Iranians insist they have never worked on weapons and have turned down IAEA requests to visit sites where the agency suspects such work was going on, including Parchin, the military complex near Tehran where the agency believes explosives testing linked to setting off a nuclear charge was conducted.Iran’s acceptance in principle of access to military sites will give the agency extra authority in its attempts to go to the site and its demands — previously rejected by Tehran — to interview scientists it suspects were involved in the alleged nuclear weapons work.
Any deal will go to the U.N. Security Council, which is expected to endorse by the end of the month, to start the mechanics of implementation — long-term, verifiable limits on Iranian nuclear programs that could be used to make weapons in exchange for an end to sanctions against Tehran.
The deal also must address Iran’s call that an arms embargo on it be lifted or at least modified — and U.S. opposition to the demand. Washington wants to maintain the ban on importing and exporting weapons, concerned that an Iran flush with cash from the nuclear deal would expand its military assistance for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and other forces opposing America’s Mideast allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Iranian leaders say the embargo must end as their forces are combating regional scourges such as ISIS. And they’re getting support from both Russia and China, who want at least a partial lifting of the restrictions. Moscow, in particular, hopes to expand military cooperation and arms sales to Tehran, including the long-delayed transfer of S-300 advanced air defense systems — a move long opposed by the United States.-FOX