Iran Pact’s Secret Side Deals: A National Security Fraud
According to the Obama administration, there are no secret side deals to the nuclear agreement with Iran. And if there are, it’s not true that Iran will be inspecting itself.
And even if Iran will be inspecting itself, the side deals are a separate arrangement and not part of the nuclear deal, and the issue they’re intended to address — past Iranian nuclear weapons work — doesn’t matter.
What’s going on here?
First, we know there are secret side deals that were not mentioned in the Obama administration’s rollout of the Iran nuclear agreement. The administration provided classified (that is, secret) briefings on the side deals to Congress during the week of July 20, in which it claimed that U.S. diplomats have been briefed on the side deal documents but have not seen them.
Obama officials told Congress that the side deals are routine International Atomic Energy Agency arrangements that were being briefed in a classified setting because they are confidential agreements between the IAEA and Iran.
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