Top Nuclear Expert: Administration Maintaining ‘Policy of Secrecy’ on Iran

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The Obama administration has cemented secret exemptions to last summer’s nuclear deal that allow Iran to keep a still-unknown amount of uranium above what the deal’s caps allow. That’s according to top nuclear experts and sources who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD after lawmakers called for greater transparency last month in the wake of a think tank report detailing some of the exemptions.

David Albright, the founder of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which published last month’s report, criticized the administration Tuesday for maintaining a “policy of secrecy” that allows Iran to store significant amounts of uranium in various forms above what the deal allows.

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