Unanswered questions regarding the framework for a nuclear deal with Iran.

1. The Nuclear Deal With Iran: Unanswered Questions

2. Why are sanctions that took years to
put in place being removed before
Iran has established a record of
sustained compliance with the
agreement over time?

3. Are sanctions being removed in
phases, as the P5+1 claims, or all at
once, as Iran claims?

4. Is it not true that Iran can reverse
virtually all the "concessions" it is
making in a few weeks or months,
while crippling sanctions, once
removed, will take years to put back
into place?

5. Given Iran’s track record of
concealing illicit nuclear activities,
why are inspectors not being
allowed to conduct surprise
inspections anywhere, anytime?

6. Will Iran finally have to come clean
about its past weaponization efforts
(PMD) or will it continue to be
allowed to stonewall the IAEA?

7. Why is the lifting of restrictions on
Iran's nuclear program in about a
decade not linked to a change in its
regime's behavior?

8. How can the international
community agree to allow the
removal of most of the deal's
restrictions on Iran's nuclear
program even if Iran remains a
terror sponsoring regime?

9. What will be the fate of Iran's
stockpile of enriched uranium?

10. Why will Iran be allowed to continue
R&D on centrifuges far more
advanced than those currently in its
possession?

11. Why doesn't the framework address
Iran's intercontinental ballistic
missile program, the sole purpose of
which is to carry nuclear payloads?

12. Who will judge whether Iran has
violated the agreement?

13. If an Iranian violation is discovered,
how will sanctions be reimposed?

14. Will the deal not encourage nuclear
proliferation in the Middle East and
around the world?

15. How will this deal differ from the
deal in North Korea, where similar
assurances were given by the
international community?

16. What is to stop Iran from using the
over one hundred billion dollars that
will be unfrozen as part of this
agreement to fund aggression and
terror in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen
and elsewhere?