The new revelation about the IAEA secret deals with the Iranian regime that allows Iranian inspectors to inspect Iran’s nuclear sites or to collect soil samples and hand them over to the IAEA has prompted wide range of reactions in the world. This undoubtedly would anger many skeptical individuals and light up the path for other undecided Democrats to express opposition to the deal.
According to the Associated Press report on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 from Washington, many officials and lawmakers have reacted to the news that the U.N. will allow Iran to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms. Iran is operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press:

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio:  “President Obama boasts his deal includes ’unprecedented verification.’ He claims it’s not built on trust. But the administration’s briefings on these side deals have been totally insufficient — and it still isn’t clear whether anyone at the White House has seen the final documents.”

Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “We must never allow Iran to become a nuclear weapons state… This agreement is far from perfect and carries risks…”

Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan: “Even more unbelievable is that the administration would trust serial nuclear cheaters to conduct their own inspections and submit their own soil samples from their nuclear sites. That is like allowing a drug addict to submit his own specimen without any supervision.”

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “This type of unorthodox agreement has never been done before by the IAEA and speaks to the great lengths our negotiators took to accommodate the Ayatollah despite repeated assurances from the administration that this deal is not based on trust.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Republican presidential candidate: “The more we learn about the Obama-Clinton Iran deal, the worse it gets. Allowing Iran to inspect its own alleged nuclear sites puts trust in a fanatical regime that’s cheated for decades and hates everything we stand for. This deal, and the secret side agreements that continue to emerge, jeopardize our safety and that of our closest allies.”

Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: “International inspections should be done by international inspectors. Period. The standard of ’anywhere, anytime’ inspections — so critical to a viable agreement — has dropped to ’when Iran wants, where Iran wants, on Iran’s terms.’”

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas: “Trusting Iran to inspect its own nuclear site and report to the U.N. in an open and transparent way is remarkably naïve and incredibly reckless. This revelation only reinforces the deep-seated concerns the American people have about the agreement.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Ca.: “It is absolutely unacceptable, yet telling, that we are finding out the details of these agreements through The Associated Press. Even more unbelievable, after Iran spent years developing their nuclear capacity in secret while denying that they were doing so, we would now allow Iran to police these sites themselves.”