Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi will meet with U.S. delegates to continue nuclear peace talks this week. He will also meet with Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He says that he seeks a “fair and equitable deal” but “what is not on the table [is] submission before threats.” It may be unreasonable to expect fairness from the IAEA. Iran released intelligence last year showing that Israel has had long-standing influence on the governing body, despite not ever submitting to weapons inspections themselves. Grossi himself was shown to be in direct communication with Israeli intelligence, even though Israel is not a party to the IAEA framework. Iran also released intelligence on Israel’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center, one of Israel’s known nuclear research facilities that, again, has never been inspected by the United Nations’ nuclear body. Given this evidence of Israeli influence and double standards in nuclear oversight, we should not be optimistic that the IAEA or the United States will make a real effort at a nuclear treaty with Iran. After all, in the words of Senator Lindsay Graham, who spoke from Israel on Monday, “the wars of the future are being planned here in Israel.” He then admitted that “Israel is advancing new weaponry, far beyond us.” So we’re not worried about inspecting those super advanced weapons at all? The post Nuclear Talks Under a Cloud of Double Standards appeared first on Redacted.