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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Testing-the-Iranian-nuclear-charm-offensive-328801
Testing Iran's Nuclear Charm Offensive
(Jerusalem Post) Irwin Cotler - There are a series of specific undertakings that Iran must be called upon to do, and be verified as doing. Iran must abide by, and fully implement, its obligations under Security Council resolutions and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian compliance should not be seen as a "concession" for which the West must necessarily reward Iran. Iran must suspend its uranium enrichment program and transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium to the custody of another country. Iran must suspend its heavy water production facilities at Arak. Iran must verifiably close and dismantle its nuclear enrichment plant at Fordow, embedded in a mountain near Qom. Iran must allow IAEA inspectors immediate and unfettered access to any suspected nuclear sites. Only Iran's verifiable abandonment of its nuclear weapons pursuits should result in the easing of international sanctions. The writer is a former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada.