UN official: (Obama's BFF) Iran regime should sign nuclear test ban treaty.

UN official: (Obama's BFF) Iran regime should sign nuclear test ban treaty. (NCRI).

The head of the United Nations' nuclear test ban treaty organization says the regime in Iran should follow up on its nuclear deal with world powers by ratifying the treaty and assuring it will never conduct a nuclear test explosion.

Lassina Zerbo said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press that if Iran doesn't ratify the treaty, "it will leave room for the doubt that people have put in this deal and the good intentions of Iran."


Zerbo said Iran should have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, known as the CTBT, before negotiations started on the deal to rein in its nuclear program.

The CTBT organization has 196 member states — 183 that have signed the treaty and 164 that have ratified it. But the treaty has not entered into force because it still needs ratification by eight countries involved in originally negotiating it.

While waiting for the CTBT to enter into force, the organization has spent more than $1 billion on an international monitoring system that can detect a nuclear test by the regime in Iran or any other country, Zerbo said. It detected all three tests by North Korea. Hmmm.....Iran: "We have an 'Invisible'  nuclear Fatwa" that covers everything.

Diplomats: Iran to take Parchin military site samples with mixed IAEA and Iranian teams, cameras overlooking the process.

Diplomats: Iran to take Parchin military site samples with mixed IAEA and Iranian teams, cameras overlooking the process.(Jpost).

United Nations inspectors will be present with Iranian technicians as they take samples from a key military site, two Western diplomats said, undercutting an objection by US Republicans to the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The diplomats were familiar with details of a confidential arrangement between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog for inspections at the Parchin site, where some countries suspect nuclear weapons-related tests may have taken place.

Western diplomats told Reuters that while Iranians would be allowed to take the samples themselves, the agency's inspectors would be physically present and would have full access to their activity.

"There was a compromise so the Iranians could save face and the IAEA could ensure it carried out its inspections according to their strict requirements," said one of the diplomats. Inspections at the Parchin site, which is about 30 km (19 miles) southeast of Tehran, would by carried out by mixed IAEA and Iranian teams coupled with cameras overlooking and recording the process, the other diplomat said.

"The IAEA will be present when the Iranians take the samples (at Parchin). This approach to managed access is something that's fairly standard in the IAEA toolbox. Nothing to worry about really," the diplomat said. Hmmm......Will they warn the Iranians a couple of weeks ahead where they'll take samples? Read the full story here.

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