Why Iran Distrusts the US in Nuke Talks

On Thursday, in Lausanne (Switzerland) the five UNSC veto-carrying members + Germany lead by EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini and Iran’s foreign minister Dr. Javad Zarif announced the long-awaited agreement draft on Iran’s disputed civilian nuclear program.

The agreement draft confirms that none of Iran’s nuclear facilities as well as the previous activities will be stopped, shut down or suspended and Iran’s nuclear activities in all its nuclear facilities including Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Arak will continue.

These comprehensive solutions will guarantee the continued enrichment program inside the Iranian territory and according to this, Iran will be allowed to go on with industrial production of nuclear fuel which is meant for running its nuclear power plants and nuclear isotope for cancer treatment facilities.

According to the solutions, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for enrichment program will cover a 10-year period, during which more than 5,000 centrifuge machines will continue producing enriched material at Natanz facility up to the 3.67-percent level. Extra machines and the related infrastructure in the facility will be collected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to be replaced by new machines consistent with the allowed standards. Accordingly, Iran will be allowed to allocate the current stockpile of enriched materials for the purpose of producing nuclear fuel or swapping it with uranium in the international markets.

Iran will continue research and development program on advanced centrifuge machines and will be also able to keep initiating and completing its R & D program on IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 machines in the 10-year period of the agreement.

Addressing a press conference in the White House Rose Garden, Barack Obama called the deal a “historic understanding” that was “a long time coming.” He also said the deal shutdown Iran’s path to a bomb that would use enriched uranium. The final agreement (after 3-month waiting period) “will make our country (with over 9,000 nuclear bombs), our allies (Israel with 400 nuclear bombs, and over 17,000 nuclear bombs among Britain, France, China and Russia), and our world safer,” Obama said.

Obama also claimed: “This deal was not based on trust. It was based on unprecedented verification.”

John Kerry, a Crypto-Jew, said the political understanding reached in the framework talks “is a solid foundation for the good deal (for Israel) that we are seeking.”

The agreed draft also calls for the removal of all sanctions imposed on Iran by the UN, EU and the US. Both Mogherini and Zarif, however, didn’t specify a timetable for removing the financial penalties.

Ian Williams, a senior analyst at Washington-based Foreign Policy in Focus, a policy think tank made the remarks on Thursday while commenting on reports that US-Iran have reached a historic understanding over Tehran’s civilian nuclear program. “In a sense, this gives the president a very good chance to poke Netanyahu in the eye,” Williams said.

Steve Lendman, American Jewish writer, blogger and author commented on the US-Iran nuclear draft: “Hegemons don’t compromise. America is all take and no give. Longstanding US policy calls for regime change. Washington wants pro-Western stooge government replacing sovereign Iranian independence. As long as this policy holds, normal relations with Iran are impossible. Eventual confrontation looms. It’s just a matter of time.”

Netanyahu claimed that he voiced strong opposition to the draft agreement in a phone conversation with Barack Obama. Netanyahu said he warned Obama that a final agreement based on this framework would “threaten the very existence of Israel,” the Associated Press reported.

Under Iranian Constitution, it’s the Majlis (Parliament), not president Hassan Rouhani to ratify any foreign agreement. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who has the ‘last word’ over country’s security issues, has not made any comments on the US-Iran draft agreement.

Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who served country’s president for eight years (1981-89), has often said that he never trusted Washington promises because they

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