(Weekly Standard) Reuel Marc Gerecht - Participants in the Vienna nuclear talks have described the proceedings so far as a take-and-give exchange, where the Iranian negotiating team grimaces and the Americans back off. The Obama administration hasn't yet wanted to push, for example, on an inspections regime that would allow the IAEA to visit undeclared Revolutionary Guard sites that may house nuclear-weapons-related research. Since the guards oversee the entire atomic program, a rational person might conclude that a nuclear deal denying the IAEA spot inspections at Revolutionary Guard facilities is defective.
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