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Senior Obama administration officials are defending
Iranian nuclear violations...
* OF... COURSE... THEY... ARE...
(*CRADLING MY HEAD IN MY HANDS*)
...in the aftermath of a bombshell report published
Wednesday by the United Nations indicating that Iran has failed to live up to
its nuclear-related obligations, according to sources apprised of the
situation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed
yesterday that Iran has failed to meet its commitments under the interim Joint
Plan of Action to convert recently enriched uranium gas to powder.
While Iran has reduced the amount of enriched uranium gas
in its stockpiles, it has failed to dispose of these materials in a way that
satisfies the requirements of the nuclear accord struck with the United States
and other powers in 2013.
Secretary of State John Kerry declared last summer that
Iran would be forced to comply with such restrictions...
* APPARENTLY NOT!
(*SNORT*)
(*SMIRK*)
...and State Department officials were assuring reporters
as recently as last month that the Iranians would meet their obligations.
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP...
(*SIGH*)
Wednesday’s disclosure by the IAEA sent the State
Department rushing to downplay the Iranian violation.
* I'M SURE IT DID!
Obama administration officials insisted that despite
Iran’s failure to meet its obligations, negotiations were still on track and
that Tehran would face no repercussions.
(*SILENCE*)
One U.S. official who spoke with the Associated Press on
Wednesday said that instead of converting its uranium gas into uranium dioxide
powder as required, Iran had transformed it into another substance. The IAEA
found that Iran had converted just 9% of the relevant stockpile into uranium
dioxide. The official went on to downplay concerns about Iran’s violation,
claiming that Tehran was only having some “technical problems.”
(*ROLLING MY EYES*)
David Albright, a nuclear expert and founder of the
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), warned that the United
States is weakening its requirements on Tehran as a final deal gets closer. “The
choosing of a weaker condition that must be met is not a good precedent for
interpreting more important provisions in a final deal,” Albright wrote in an
analysis published late Wednesday.
* YA THINK...?!?!
The IAEA’s disclosures are in contrast to comments made
by Kerry last summer when he assured observers that Iran would live up to the
interim agreement.
The Israel Project (TIP), which has sent officials to
Vienna to track the deal, wrote in an email to reporters that the
administration looked like it was “playing Tehran’s lawyer” in a bid to defuse
potential fallout from the IAEA’s report.
One Western source present in Vienna said the
administration is scrambling to ensure that nothing interferes with a final
deal. “Once again, the White House will go to any length needed to preserve the
Obama-Iran deal, even if it means covering up Iran’s failure to convert all of
the nuclear material as promised,” said the source.
* FOLKS... WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE AN ACTUAL
"MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
“If they had admitted Iran failed to live up to the
letter of the JPOA — as is the case — this one-week extension period of the
JPOA would be totally invalidated and the talks would be over,” the source
added.
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