Commentary
News of Iran’s nuclear “belligerence” continues this month as Tehran announced it will blind 27 of its nuclear sites’ surveillance cameras after it was chastised by the UN nuclear watchdog for not answering questions pertaining to traces of uranium found at three undeclared sites.
Iran’s new stance, and maybe more to the point its clear propensity to evade scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), isn’t exactly making the case for normalization, that and the often-overlooked fact that state officials have already blown the proverbial whistle on the leadership’s true motives.
On April 24, 2022, the former deputy chairman of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Motahhari, reportedly said in an interview with the Iran Student Correspondents Association, “At the beginning, when we launched the nuclear program, our aim was to develop the bomb and improve our deterrent power.”…