Page 10 says that Iran will clarify past issues that the West has had with Iran's nuclear weapons programs. This will be done with the IAEA by later in 2015. Remember that this is done with the IAEA, which does not have to reveal the contents to us.
Are we to be comforted or worried when the IAEA releases a statement that "Iran has clarified all past and present outstanding issues of concern regarding their nuclear programs."
The IAEA never did clarify past programs, instead doing essentially what I feared they'd do.
The IAEA chose to ignore past Iranian nuclear weapons activities:
[Even] though a December 2, 2015, IAEA report raised several serious unresolved questions about Iran’s nuclear weapons–related activities, the IAEA will no longer report on this issue because its Board of Governors closed the file on the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program.
Why? Because Iran insisted:
The Iranians insist that we pretend they never had a nuclear weapons program or they will refuse to abide by the pathetic restrictions placed on their nuclear ambitions by the Joint Comprehensive Wink and a Nod negotiated by Secretary of State Kerry:
Tehran has long urged [IAEA director] Amano to close the file and assure everyone that there never was a “Possible Military Dimension” to its nuclear program. Now, the mullahs say, unless Amano certifies that they never intended to build a nuclear bomb, they won’t shut down the spinning centrifuges. They may even take all their marbles home.
The worst secretary of state ever is likely to go along with this:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that preventing Iran developing a nuclear weapon in future was more important now than "ambiguities" about its past military efforts.
What a shock.
They pretend. We pretend. It was predictable.
And we went along with the lie. Which no doubt convinced the Iranians we'd let them get away with anything at all.
