Known liars begin self inspection of nuclear sites in Iran

Wall Street Journal:

Iran revealed Monday that it took its own samples at a suspect military site without international inspectors present, sparking fresh criticism in Congress of a United Nations investigation into whether Tehran once worked on nuclear weapons.

Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, defended his agency’s investigation by saying it had made significant progress a day after Iran allowed him and another top IAEA official access to parts of the Parchin military site that it had kept closed off until now. It was Mr. Amano’s strongest signal yet that Iran is cooperating in the probe.

But the revelations that Iran, rather than the IAEA, took the samples at Parchin—a key step in the investigation—only deepened concerns that the world will never get a clear understanding of any past weaponization work in the country. Iran has repeatedly denied it had a weaponization program.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s investigation has become a focal point of critics, including some U.S. lawmakers, of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers.

As part of the nuclear deal reached in July, the IAEA is supposed to release by December a report affirming Tehran cooperated in its investigation as a prelude to sanctions on Iran being lifted.
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), a chief critic of the Iran nuclear deal, pointed to Iran’s latest disclosures as more evidence of the flaws in the nuclear agreement.

“The fact that Iran is taking its own soil samples shows that the verification scheme is an embarrassing charade, and yet another concession we can add to the pile of concessions that make up the dangerous Iran deal,” he said.Even some supporters of the Iran deal in Washington said they were skeptical the IAEA would be able to issue a conclusive report by December. But they said the U.S. probably had enough of its own intelligence to make a determination on Parchin, and that it was more important to focus on the future implementation of the Iran agreement.
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Iran is ruled by religious bigots who believe it is OK to lie to non believers of their religion in order to achieve their objectives.  That separates them from other countries who do self inspections.  Anyone who trust this Iranian government is merely fooling themselves.