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October 31, 2018

How Iran Has Been Hiding Its Nuclear Programs

Captured files show the futility of the nuclear deal.

Since the 2015 nuclear deal did not require Tehran to disclose its prior nuclear work—a standard provision of similar agreements—the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has no way of knowing whether there are secret sites being used to develop nuclear weapons that its inspectors are not being allowed to visit. The agreement therefore based its already inadequate inspections regime on the determinations of U.S. intelligence as well as those made previously by the IAEA itself. But, conclude David Albright, Olli Heinonen, and Andrea Stricker, the documents Israel spirited out of the Islamic Republic show that these determinations were wrong and, furthermore, that Tehran has gone to great lengths to conceal its nuclear research from detection:

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