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Source: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/irans-nuclear-deal-was-doomed-the-start-25757?page=show
Iran's Nuclear Deal Was Doomed from the Start
(National Interest) Michael Rubin - Precedent suggests that the revelation of a secret Iranian nuclear archive is itself a violation of the nuclear deal. After all, when South Africa forfeited its nuclear program in 1991, the IAEA did not allow it to keep blueprints for a nuclear warhead. It makes perfect sense to suspend sanctions waivers until such time as the IAEA has methodically reviewed the archive. The writer, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes (2014).