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Iran Keeps Its Nuclear Secrets
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - With less than a week to go until the deadline for the Iran nuclear talks, the list of skeptical governments and experts is growing. "Progress has been very limited" on Iran's promise to come clean about its earlier efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano said this week. Western intelligence agencies believe the regime tried to develop a nuclear explosive device beginning in the 1980s. Tehran consolidated its weaponization work in the "AMAD Plan," led by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a Ph.D. nuclear scientist and senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The AMAD Plan's latest iteration is the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research. Without a baseline to understand what Iran was doing, it's hard to see how the Obama administration can honor its core pledge to strike a deal that would give the West a one-year warning if Iran decides to build a bomb. Moreover, any verification program that doesn't give inspectors unfettered and immediate access to any place they want to see does little more than create the illusion of inspections while giving Iran the opportunity to cheat.