Iran may be allowed to continue with a “small” uranium enrichment program under the terms of the final deal currently being negotiated, according to State Department undersecretary Wendy Sherman.

“Whether, in fact, Iran will have a domestic enrichment program is part of the negotiations,” Sherman told reporters in Jerusalem (which she once referred to as Israel, either as diplomatic double-talk or a momentary departure from administration policy). “In the Joint Plan of Action, it was envisioned that it was possible, that Iran might have a small, discreet enrichment program. But that really depended on what the nature of that was, whether there would be the verification and monitoring that would ensure that it would never have a military dimension to the program, it would be strictly for peaceful purposes.”