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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-exemptions-exclusive-idUSKCN1173LA
Report: U.S. Agreed to "Secret" Exemptions for Iran after Nuclear Deal
(Reuters) Jonathan Landay - The U.S. and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report published Thursday by the Institute for Science and International Security. "The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran," said the institute's president David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector and co-author of the report. Among the exemptions were two that allowed Iran to exceed the deal's limits on how much low-enriched uranium (LEU) it can keep in its nuclear facilities. Albright said the exceptions risked setting precedents that Iran could use to seek additional waivers.