US-Led Nuke Negotiators Allowed Inspections Loopholes for Iran, Think Tank Says

"The U.S. and world powers had a secret deal with Iran to allow the Islamic Republic to dodge restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear deal, according to a new report from a Washington think tank...

The full details are contained in a report, obtained by Fox News, from the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.

Iran allegedly is not being held to the publicly announced conditions of the deal, which was supposed to allow a decade of inspections and transparency aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The institute's president, David Albright, told Reuters that the 'exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran.'...

According to the report, some of the exemptions allowed Iran to exceed the limitations on how much low-enriched uranium could be kept at its nuclear facilities. The uranium can be configured into weapons-grade uranium. The report said that the U.S. and its negotiating partners -- Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- approved the exemptions..."