Surprise Iranian nuclear inspections!…In 24 days

National Post ^ | July 24, 2015 | Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, Bloomberg News

[rickmichaels]

When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies in the coming days before Congress about the deal he just negotiated with Iran, he will have some explaining to do.

Some Congressional leaders were under the impression that while Kerry was at the talks in Vienna, he was pressing Iran to allow “anytime, anywhere” access for UN inspectors to examine sites suspected of nuclear activity.

Kerry’s account differs: “This is a term that honestly I never heard in the four years that we were negotiating,” he said on Face the Nation on Sunday. “It was not on the table.”

Those words are likely to haunt Kerry this week when he goes before Congress. This is not how others in the administration described the deal in April. Other senior officials said the U.S. was pressing for such access, known as snap inspections, that wouldn’t give Iran the time to hide suspicious activity.

More important, if Kerry knew there would be no “anytime, anywhere” inspections, why did he let so many members of Congress believe this was a possibility while he was negotiating the deal? Under the terms of the final deal, Iran will have at least 24 days before it would be compelled to allow an inspector physical access to a suspected site, a standard that falls short of what most Democrats and Republicans have said would be necessary for a good deal.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Except for military installations. Expect all of their nuclear weapons factories to be protected by an on site military presence.

[RitaOK]

LOL! “Surprise....in 24 days”.

Now this means Iran will be providing both their own samples to their own inspectors, right? Well, except Kerry might make a quick run through himself. With bike and helmet, I presume.