The Obama administration naturally is playing down the contents of a secret document that is part of last year’s nuclear agreement with Iran as much ado about nothing, but both the secret aspect of the document and what it allows the terror-sponsoring country to do underscore the fallacy of the deal.
The document, obtained by the Associated Press, allows Iran to start using advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium 11 years after the implementation of the deal – in January 2027. With that advanced capacity, experts say the country would cut in half the one year the administration has maintained it would take Iran to make enough weapons grade uranium for one nuclear weapon.
It also flies in the face of repeated administration statements that it would be more than 15 years before Iran’s ability to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear device would plunge to “a matter of months.” And it puts the lie to any talk about Iran being “permanently” bound “by other curbs on its ability to produce a nuclear weapon.”
The administration maintains the secret document wasn’t made public because it was part of Iran’s long-term enrichment plan submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which it says is usually confidential. But it adds to the pathetic line of information some administration officials admitted several months ago that they put out to sell the deal to the public.
Iran foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appeared to acknowledge the country’s ability to power up sooner than the American public had been told Tuesday, saying Iran’s uranium enrichment program is a “matter of pride.”