It is by young professionals, for young professionals. And in a conference call with reporters a few days after the deal was announced, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace nonproliferation expert George Perkovich, who has a positive view of the deal, speculated that "you're never going to have many of these questions fully resolved.LINK offers young professionals opportunities to better understand the Middle East and advance their careers through events with high-level policymakers, journalists, and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives. In fact, the IAEA was " using Iranian language" in framing how disclosure issues would be settled, as the Royal United Services Institute's Aaron Stein put it in an interview with Vox. It is little surprise the IAEA didn't win this concession, as even analysts with a generally favorable view of the nuclear agreement have acknowledged that the road map was settled on terms favorable to Tehran. The IAEA could conceivably have made the signing of the road map contingent on Iran's willingness to distribute the entirety of the agreement. Such a request could be best done by a country which is not part of the JCPOA process my favorite is Canada."
The board can also request the whole document to be made public. "Simple majority is enough, and no vetoes exist in the IAEA system. this can be overcome by a vote," Heinonen said. Such a move would stand a decent chance of success: "If a board member asks it and others resist the distribution.
In one scenario, Iran would agree to divulge the documents: "Iran can make it available by asking to distribute it as an document to all IAEA member states as they did with the 2007 Work Plan," Heinonen said, referring to a publicly available agreement between the IAEA and Iran on nuclear safeguards. But there are two ways US diplomats could access them. Heinonen said the IAEA secretariat could not divulge these side agreements to other member states on its own initiative. "According to the IAEA rules and practices such documents could be made available to the members of the IAEA Board," Olli Heinonen, a senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs who is also the IAEA's former deputy director-general for safeguards, wrote to Business Insider in an email. In spite of the administration's viewpoint, there were and are still ways of making these side agreements available to American diplomats - if Iran or the US or one of its allies on the IAEA's Board of Governors really wanted them disclosed. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in Austria on July 13. Neither does the importance of the broader nuclear deal seem to necessitate the utmost possible transparency. In other words, the administration is advocating the secrecy of documents its top diplomats acknowledge they haven't seen yet.Īnd Kerry's logic implies that, on at least the narrow question of divulging its side agreements with the IAEA, Iran is entitled to the same treatment as any other Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory. "I have no idea."Īt both hearings, Kerry contended that the IAEA often entered into highly technical agreements with individual governments whose contents are not made available to other states. On Wednesday, Kerry told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a single US diplomat, possibly Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state, "may have" looked at the side agreements during a meeting at an IAEA facility.īut he couldn't recall whether that official had seen the final version: "I don't know whether she read a summary or a draft," Kerry said. Kerry testifying in Washington on Tuesday in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Iran nuclear agreement. The road map will help create an inspection baseline for future monitoring of Iran's nuclear program and is considered crucial to the successful implementation of the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It gives the IAEA until December 15 to issue a report on Iran's disclosure of its previous weaponization activities, a process aimed at giving weapons inspectors much needed knowledge of Iran's illicit supply lines, level of expertise, weaponization infrastructure, and military oversight of components of its nuclear program. These agreements most likely deal with the implementation of a "road map" meant to resolve nearly a decade of Iranian stalling on disclosing the extent of its suspected nuclear-weaponization program. During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday, and then again during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, Kerry acknowledged that he had not seen the details of the side agreements reached between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran on July 14.
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