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Source: http://www.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=5650
U.S. Defense Secretary: Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Verifiable, "Can't Be Based on Trust"
(U.S. Department of Defense) Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday, "Could you trust the Iranians if you get a deal with them, because their history isn't, let us say, spotless in that regard?...A good deal has a few things it must have within it. One of them, it has to be verifiable. That is, we have to be able to know that the Iranians are taking the steps that the agreement calls for to not get a nuclear weapon. We can't do that based on trust." "Just like back in the old days of the Cold War when we had arms control with the Soviet Union, we didn't trust the Soviet Union either. And we wanted to make sure that all the agreements are verifiable. So that's a critical thing. And if it's not verifiable, we're not going to agree to it."