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Source: http://jcpa.org/article/inspections-nuclear-agreement/
Inspections: The Weak Link in a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dore Gold - One striking feature appearing in the leading commentaries on the Comprehensive Agreement being negotiated between Iran and the P5+1 is the stress they are placing on the role of inspections in assuring the international community that Tehran will not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons. Rather than cut deeply into Iran's stocks of enriched uranium or drastically limit the number and speed of its gas centrifuge machines, these proposals also suggest that an unusually robust inspection system can play a significant role in assuring that Tehran will have a difficult time breaking out of any of future agreement. Underlying these proposals is an appreciation by the authors that a strategy stressing inspections may have a better chance of being accepted by the Iranian leadership. The writer, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN, is president of the Jerusalem Center.