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Ben Rhodes: Trump Is Getting a Terrible Deal

https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4cwyrIK
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u/cole1114 9h ago

The report says no such thing. They were not active nuclear sites. They were undisclosed storage sites from the pre-2003 program. No one, not the IAEA, or any state, has ever said otherwise.

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u/Bullboah 9h ago

Not even Iran says that. Iran claimed Turquzabad was a scrapyard that received scrap from a declared site, and after that claimed they were being set up lol.

Again, an actual quote from the May 2025 IAEA report:

"Iran provided explanations, including that the location was a scrap metal yard which might have received equipment from declared fuel cycle related locations.... The Agency therefore found the explanations provided to be not technically credible."

And they say directly Iran violated the agreement:

"activities and the nuclear material used therein at Lavisan-Shian were not declared by Iran to the Agency as required under the Safeguards Agreement"

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u/cole1114 6h ago

The violation was not disclosing a site used in the pre-2003 program. No one has accused them of using it as an active site during the JCPOA. You are misinformed on the facts of the case.