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Iran’s nuclear weapons drive is a major sticking point before any new deal

The “possible military dimension” (PMD) of the Iranian regime’s already highly controversial nuclear weapons program remains outstanding and a source of ongoing troubles for the mullahs in Tehran.

Raphael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in his latest quarterly report to the body’s Board of Governors, emphasizes that the Agency cannot guarantee the peaceful nature of the Iranian regime’s nuclear program due to the mullahs’ actions that have resulted in “detrimental implications.” This has become a major obstacle before any agreement between world powers and Tehran.

There has been no advances on the IAEA’s remaining questions regarding the source of nuclear material found in Iran’s previously undeclared sites, Grossi added, insisting that the mullahs’ regime has not provided any answers. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium currently stands at 19 times the amount set by the 2015 nuclear deal.

“Iran’s cache of highly enriched uranium of 60% purity increased by about 30% in the quarter to August 21, reaching 55.6 kilograms,” The Wall Street Journal reported after viewing the IAEA report, adding the regime’s “highly enriched uranium can easily be converted into weapons grade fuel, with Iran’s stockpile of that material well above the minimum amount needed to fuel one nuclear weapon.”

This report has been issued in sensitive circumstances considering the fact that the regime’s nuclear negotiators are again demanding the IAEA to close Iran’s PMD dossier. “The closure of the safeguards case is a precondition to an agreement,” said Iranian regime President Ebrahim Raisi on September 1. This is what resulted in a complete failure of the Europe’s latest proposal.

Tehran considers an end to its PMD dossier as critical and is currently seeking to take advantage of the West’s appeasement approach to finalize this important subject.

After World War II, the international community adopted the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons across the globe. Following its foundation in 1957, the IAEA has been the watchdog of this important global statute. Based on Article 3, Section 1 of the NPT, countries that do not possess nuclear weapons will accept the safeguards protocols, also known as the IAEA’s oversight over their peaceful nuclear activities. Iran adopted these obligations in 1969.

The PMD issue of the mullahs ruling has been discussed since the 2002 revelations made by the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) regarding the regime’s secret sites in Natanz and Arak. This revelation caught the world by surprise and then U.S. president George Bush said the Iranian regime’s nuclear program was unveiled when the Iranian opposition reported them to the world.

The IAEA became involved and recently former IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen said the Iranian opposition’s revelations suddenly changed everything and left all those involved surprised and shocked.

Following several months of delaying tactics, the Iranian regime was finally forced into allowing an IAEA team to visit the revealed sites. However, during the months leading to this inspection they were extremely busy attempting to rid any trace of enriched uranium, even resorting to razing the ground at various sites. However, according to Mr. Heinonen, who led the initial IAEA team into Iran, regime officials had forgotten to cleanse the ventilating systems, where IAEA inspectors later found traces of enriched uranium.

The Iranian opposition NCRI has ever since organized over 100 series of revelations during the past 20 years to shed more light on the mullahs’ nuclear weapons drive. In November 2011, the IAEA officially accused the regime of developing activities in pursuit of nuclear weapons and conditioned the closure of the mullahs’ PMD dossier to answering 12 questions. The mullahs have yet to resolve this matter.

In 2015 the West resorted to appeasing the mullahs

Following the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and they adopted an IAEA Board of Governor’s resolution to suspend the regime’s PMD dossier. This concession to Tehran, by forgoing the necessary technical resolutions (allowing the regime to leave the IAEA’s questions unresolved), rendered a political finalization to the regime’s nuclear dossier.

However, following the JCPOA’s failure and especially a series of new revelations regarding numerous other secret regime sites where the IAEA discovered traces of highly enriched uranium in breach of Tehran’s obligations, once again the mullahs’ saw their PMD dossier being reopened.

As we speak the mullahs’ regime is using the West’s appeasement approach to continuously drag the nuclear talks process while attempting to convince its western counterparts to once again politically end Tehran’s PMD dossier. However, from 2017 to this day the Iranian people have launched numerous nationwide uprisings that have changed the status quo and inner balance of power inside Iran.

This is preventing the world’s leading pro-appeasement governments and circles from providing such a concession of concluding the regime’s PMD dossier through political means. The IAEA Director General is specifically saying without obtaining responses from the Iranian regime, the questions regarding the regime’s PMD will remain open to be properly clarified.

The status quo, following 20 years of revelations by the Iranian opposition NCRI, has left the mullahs having to choose between bad and worse: Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is demanding his regime to push forward with their nuclear weapons initiatives. All the while, pro-appeasement circles are feeling less able to continue their rapprochement to provide heavy concessions to the mullahs’ regime.

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