(Wall Street Journal) Jay Solomon - The U.S. will never get to the bottom of Iran's efforts to build an atomic weapon, and Tehran won't be pressed to fully explain its past. In a report to Capitol Hill last week, the administration said it was unlikely Iran would admit to having pursued a covert nuclear weapons program, and that such an acknowledgment wasn't critical to verifying Iranian commitments in the future. Under the deal, Tehran is required by mid-October to give UN inspectors access to Iranian scientists, military sites and documents tied to a covert nuclear-weapons program in order to have international sanctions repealed. Outside nuclear experts said understanding Iran's past nuclear work was critical to verifying the new agreement because it establishes a baseline for what Tehran has done in the past.
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