Now for the facts.Iran violated the agreement before the ink dried
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has never certified that Iran is in โcomplianceโ with the deal. Moreover, each quarter since January 2016, the IAEA has reported that it still has not been able to determine that Iran has no undeclared nuclear facilities and materials and thus cannot conclude that Iranโs nuclear program is peaceful
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Israel discovered two clandestine facilities in Iran in 2018. Both show that Iran violated the deal by holding back information, nuclear equipment, and nuclear materials.
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ISIS has reported โthe new information from the Iranian nuclear archive conclusively shows that the Parchin site did house high explosive chambers capable for use in nuclear weapons research and developmentโฆ that Iran conducted at Parchin more high explosive tests related to nuclear weapons development than previously thoughtโฆ(and Iranโs) failure to destroy all these documents, and purportedly, the equipment used in these activities, does not align with its commitment under the JCPOA โthat under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons.โโ
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The files show that Iran lied when its leaders, including President Hassan Rouhani said: โIran has never sought to build nuclear weapons.โ It shows that the Iranians continue to want to build such weapons. It shows that Iran violated the NNPT and failed to come clean to the IAEA about its past research. It indicates that Iran had begun the process of establishing an underground nuclear test site and developing the necessary methods to estimate nuclear explosive yield in the early 2000s
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Post-deal, Iran refused to cooperate with the IAEA.
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Each of the 8 quarterly IAEA reports issued since the JCPOAโs implementation has lacked information that would enable independent assessments of Iranian compliance, raising concern that the agency seeks to conceal. None of the reports states that Iran has complied with the JCPOA. Rather, as the JCPOA notes, the IAEAโs mandate primarily entails monitoring and reporting on Tehranโs nuclear-related actions (or lack thereof) pursuant to the JCPOAโs provisions. Iran blocked an official from the IAEA from visiting its nuclear site at Natanz. The IAEA has confirmed that Iran lied about its secret nuclear warehouse in Turkuzabad that violates both the JCPOA and the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The IAEA has also stated, probably about Turkuzabad, that โThe agency has detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency.โ
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The U.S. & Russia bought or traded for the excess heavy water, which subsidizes the Iranian nuclear program, and will indirectly support terrorism. The U.S. wired $8.6 million for 32 metric tons. Iran was storing excess heavy water in Oman. This โwaiverโ was eventually revoked. Mark Dubowitz, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has explained: โThese U.S. subsidies will help Tehran perfect its heavy water production skills so it will be fully prepared to develop its plutonium bomb-making capabilities when restrictions on the program sunset โฆโ
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Iran is not allowing for international inspections of military sites. Iranian officials had said Tehran would not allow international inspectors to enter military sites, in comments that contradicted JCPOA language. Parchin is one such site, which was inspected once under only special, restricted, circumstances. In 2017, Velayati, a senior adviser to Leader Khamenei, reiterated, โUnder no circumstances are the Americans allowed to inspect Iranโs military sites.โ He has repeated this. Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has claimed that there are no provisions within the JCPOA or in the Additional Protocol to obligate Iran to permit inspection of its military sites. Both the IAEA and Olli Heinonen acknowledge that there have been no inspections.
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The head of Iranโs nuclear agency was reported to have told lawmakers that Iran had enriched 24 metric tons of uranium since the nuclear deal was reached in 2015. โAfter the JCPOA, Iran enriched 24 tons of uranium, not 300 kilograms,โ Gholamali Jafarzadeh, a member of the Iranian parliament, quoted Salehi as saying, according to Mehr News. Twenty-four metric tons is 24,000 kilograms