This Iran nuclear not only a lousy deal, but it has loopholes. Like ObamaCARE, it’s ‘we had to sign the deal to find out what’s in it’ from the Obama regime. According to the Jerusalem Post, a loophole in the Iran nuclear deal bans “further advances” at Arak nuclear reactor. But off-site component work is not explicitly banned.
But the gap, which one diplomat described as a potential “loophole”, could provide a test of Iran’s intentions, and demonstrates how difficult it will be to reach a final deal to resolve Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West once and for all.
Iran’s uncompleted heavy-water research reactor near the town of Arak emerged as one of the most important issues in marathon negotiations in Geneva last week that ended early on Sunday with a breakthrough deal.
Tehran has earlier said it could open the reactor as soon as next year. It says its purpose is only to make medical isotopes, but Western countries say it could also produce plutonium, one of two materials, along with enriched uranium, that can be used to make the fissile core of a nuclear bomb.
Much of the final day of negotiations was taken up with the major powers pressing hard for language that would stop Iran from completing the reactor.
But no language explicitly prevents it from making components elsewhere, which could then be installed later.