A brief media-driven scandal emerged this morning amid reports of continued Iranian construction at the Arak heavy water reactor site, even though the deal made clear days ago that certain types of construction were allowed to continue at the site.
The deal only restricts Iran from working on the reactor itself, or adding fuel to the site for the next six months, and work on the rest of the site can continue without restriction. Despite this, there was a little “is Iran cheating” scandal for a few hours.
Then the US finally spoke up on the matter, pointing out that the construction Iran was talking about is exactly the kind that was permitted under the deal they signed last weekend.
People who were skeptical of the Iran deal were hoping for a quick chance to declare a violation, but analysts say that this is unlikely, because Iran wouldn’t have bothered to sign such a pact if it didn’t intend to stick to it for six months.
The monkey wrenches is starting to fly.
Poor Benny…can't even get his pet media outlets to trick the American people…again. Rest assured though that the effort to confuse and antagonize the issue will continue unabated.
This was an Israeli attack on the deal. It must be discussed for what it is. It wasn't just "media" although it was planted in the media.
Well, one major driver of the harassment of Iran leading to the agreement does things like promise no more drone strikes and then blows up yer peace-talk partner. The primary driver is even lower. But we'll all just focus on whether-Iran-sticks-to-a-deal.
Arak is subject to DAILY inspections, so they are ONLY going to do what they have signed up to do! The reality is the Iranians are desperate to make sure that it is the US that breaches the agreement and the Congress and Israeli Firsters are doing their best to breach the agreement. The World is watching and if it is the US that breaches the agreement they will know about it as well! One of the agreements is that there is no NEW Sanctions, this means NO NEW SANCTIONS, not we will make sanctions at law THEN say that they will not come into being until after the six months! US Congress have failed to read the fine Print it also doesn't mean we made the Sanctions and the President Vetoed them it MEANS NO NEW SANCTIONS FULL STOP!