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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/10/why-the-iranians-cant-be-trusted/
Why the Iranians Can't Be Trusted
(Washington Times) Gary Anderson - Recent events have shown that the people in the Iranian Foreign Ministry that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his team are dealing with have little or no control over the actual workings of the nuclear program. Leaked documents from the last round of negotiations show that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) actively subverted compliance with the agreement that diplomats negotiated. Since the IRGC physically controls the nuclear development program and has no desire to see outside inspectors, it is fair to ask why we are going through the farce of negotiating a worthless agreement for the second time. Any attempt to negotiate in good faith with Iran is dead on arrival without IRGC concurrence. It is unlikely that the IRGC will allow the implementation of any agreement that is reached with the Americans in the long run. The writer lectures on Alternative Analysis at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.