South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al-Monitor on the report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that details Iran’s nuclear weapons program:
Far from being the whitewash some had predicted, a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states clearly that Iran had a nuclear weapons program until 2003 and continued some research for six more years.
The highly anticipated document on the possible military dimensions (PMD) of the Iranian nuclear program, however, broke little new ground in terms of what the international intelligence community already knew. Experts said the findings are unlikely to impede implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) curbing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade in return for relief of economic sanctions.