(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Israeli agents pilfered a massive collection of technical documents from an Iranian warehouse in 2018. The Institute for Science and International Security's David Albright and Sarah Burkhard, who have received extensive access to this nuclear archive, provide new details about Iran's covert nuclear weapons program in their book Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons. The authors say there are as many as two dozen sites in Iran "highly relevant to the IAEA in determining...whether nuclear weapons efforts have ended or in fact are ongoing." Inspectors have visited only three of these sites and found traces of processed uranium. Arms-control agreements are only as good as the verification allowed. If international inspectors don't have instant and comprehensive access to declared or undeclared nuclear sites, there's no way to know whether they are complying. The Administration seems eager to accept even a flawed deal as a way to liberate the U.S. from its entanglements in the Middle East. But this will empower Iran and its proxies and make it more likely America is dragged back in.
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