After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declassified a trove of intelligence documents on Iran's secret nuclear program Monday night, whether or not a smoking gun incontrovertibly proving Iran's criminal nuclear activity is found on the tip of the iceberg is irrelevant. The revelation was meant to be a reverberating bugle's call to wake up the international community and a painful reminder of the dangers of continuing the nuclear deal as it currently stands.
The rich information trove from Iran's nuclear archives, revealed thanks to Israeli intelligence, decidedly indicates the existence of a clandestine, complex nuclear program whose sole purpose is to realize Iran's dream of having the bomb. With this in mind, not to mention Tehran's continuously concerted efforts Tehran in this endeavor, the weaknesses of the nuclear deal are blatantly apparent – open doors tempt even saints.
Remember that the 2015 nuclear deal was not supposed to bring about the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program's infrastructure, complexes and capabilities accumulated over the years. As a matter of fact, the deal was no more than a demarcation of boundaries on the uranium-enriching centrifuges that the Iranian regime was allowed to keep spinning, including what level of enrichment is permitted, which are supposed to remain in effect for 10 or 15 years.
Ahead of May 12, when U.S. President Donald Trump will decide if America will remain in the deal, it is clear that the authority to inspect, monitor and supervise its implementation is partial and limited, as inspectors do not have the right to enter military facilities. The immense necessity to immediately remedy the deal becomes all the more apparent ahead of the possible expiry date. First and foremost, Netanyahu's revelation proves the need to make the deal into a permanent settlement, without any time constraints whatsoever, followed by the need to form new international monitoring apparatuses that will be much more penetrative and effective than the ones in existence.
After all, the force of the Iranian archive, whose level of secrecy was surprisingly brought down from top-secret to unclassified, does not necessarily lie in one single document, but rather in the mass amount of evidence proving the ayatollahs' resolve, or rather their aim, not to mention unlimited ambition, in their nuclear pursuits. Moreover, they are doing this by using clandestine tactics of concealment and deception. The tomb on an Iranian nuclear weapon must be permanently sealed. If possible, this should be done with the support and backing of the original signatories to the deal.
