Iran meets key deadline in sanctions relief deal

In July, the UN Security Council has unanimously adopted the resolution in support of the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme.

“Iran in the present day offered the IAEA with its rationalization in writing and associated paperwork as agreed within the road-map for the clarification of past and current excellent points relating to Iran’s nuclear program”, the IAEA stated on Saturday, confirming Iran had met a deadline.

The figures skew closely to previously public opinion polls, which have mostly shown a slight majority of Americans against the accord.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told The Wall Street Journal that he had a “legal obligation to protect confidential agreements” between Iran and the IAEA, emphasizing the importance of the agency’s independence. The deal can not mean that the west will go softer on Iran.

The numbers show the White House’s campaign to sell the deal to a skeptical electorate and lawmakers may be paying some dividends, ahead of Congress’s vote on the issue in mid-September.

He also states that there is still hope that US Congress may not endorse President Obama’s agreement with the Iranian President, Rouhani.

The undeniably weak nuclear deal is a step backward with respect to the type of concessions we could have gotten from Tehran if we had stuck to our guns.

As recently as February, Americans gave Iran the lowest favorable rating of 22 countries, and a strong majority felt Iran’s development of nuclear weapons posed a “critical” threat to the United States, according to Gallup results.

The July 14 deal’s main focus is curbing Iran’s present nuclear program that could be used to make weapons.

History provides reasons to be skeptical of U.S. ability to detect and gauge secret Iranian nuclear activity. On Iran, for example, agencies brought in “red teams”, both from inside and outside to probe for weaknesses, question assumptions and ponder unlikely scenarios.

In Iran, the CIA has never had much success developing and keeping good intelligence sources, says Reuel Marc Gerecht, who worked as a CIA operations officer.