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The Iranian Nuclear Program: Practical Parameters for a Credible Long-Term Agreement
(Henry Jackson Society) Olli Heinonen - Any credible and durable deal regarding the Iranian nuclear program must include intensified, sustained verification - undertaken by the IAEA - and a suitable degree of irreversibility. Iran must allow the IAEA to address the whole picture of the military dimension concerns and decommission, dismantle or convert to non-nuclear or peaceful use in a verifiable and irreversible manner nuclear-related equipment, materials, facilities and sites that contradict the provisions of the safeguards agreement. Iran must provide the IAEA with unconditional and unrestricted access to any and all areas, facilities, equipment, records, people, and materials, including source materials, which are deemed necessary by the IAEA to fulfill its requirements under the safeguards agreement, and to verify Iran's declarations. The writer was Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency.