Is there a 'Secret Iran Deal' hidden from Congress? Iran Claims Side Deal in Geneva Agreement.

Is there a 'Secret Iran Deal' hidden from Congress? Iran Claims Side Deal in Geneva Agreement.
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Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said in a Persian-language interview today that there are important details about the deal between Iran and the U.S. and major powers in a 30-page document that hasn’t been made public. 

This weekend, Iran and the P5+1 nations agreed to the final version of the deal (which commences next week) but haven’t released its actual text — and the Iranian official, Abbas Araqchi, said that they may never be released, amounting to what some are calling a “secret side deal.”

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the text of the implementing agreement would be released to lawmakers. He said the six parties were weighing how much of the text they could release publicly.

Hawkish American groups have called for the Obama administration to release the text of the agreement, but Araqchi’s claim about “nonpaper” text implies that Iran and the P5+1 powers have decided that certain elements of the deal to which they agreed should not be made public.

Araqchi says that text includes some of the restrictions on what kind of nuclear research Iran will be able to pursue: Western officials said on Sunday that existing projects could continue and research could go on, but that new physical projects can’t be begun.

Araqchi may have suggested otherwise, saying, “No facility will be closed; enrichment will continue, and qualitative and nuclear research will be expanded. All research into a new generation of centrifuges will continue.”

The Iranian comments about the “side deal” could have been misinterpreted (literally or figuratively), but his description of the Iranian understanding of the nuclear-research portion of the deal seems to suggest that there may be a gap between what the West has claimed about the deal and what Iran says it allows. We’ll have to see whether that confusion is cleared up.

White House Says Iran Implementation Agreement Being Kept Secret Because Of The EU

The text of an agreement reached Sunday to implement the interim nuclear deal with Iran is not available to the public because the European Union is not releasing it, the White House says.

“The EU is not making the document public,” National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said on Sunday.

The fact that the document is not being released to the public has started to draw criticism from Iran hawks. “I urge the White House to publicly release the text of the implementation agreement with #Iran for all to review,” tweeted Sen. Mark Kirk, one of the authors of the sanctions legislation now moving through the Senate.Hmmm.....You mean to say Pres Obama would lie to the American people, you don't say!