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Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program Confirmed
(Council on Foreign Relations) Elliott Abrams - The newest IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program says Iran was in fact working on nuclear weapons until at least 2009, and has refused to "come clean." First, we see that all the Iranian propaganda about never, ever building a weapon, and about the mysterious "fatwa" barring Iran from having a nuclear weapon, was a pack of lies. Second, we see that the nuclear deal, however weak its terms, will not in any event be enforced. The lesson this teaches Iran is that the U.S. has too much invested in the agreement to demand full Iranian compliance with it. The writer, a senior fellow at CFR, was a deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration.