Iran presented the United States with a nuclear agreement that had more holes than “Swiss cheese” – leading to Donald Trump pulling the trigger on full-on war, officials have said.
American negotiators suspected Tehran was stalling after leaders handed over a flimsy seven-page agreement in Geneva on Thursday, The Telegraph can disclose.
In the deal, which Tehran called a “needs-based agreement”, the regime pledged to enrich only enough uranium to run a civilian nuclear power station over the next 10 years.
Tehran Research Reactor, which has been running for 59 years, was first thought to be a civil reactor used to build radio isotopes and create medicines for the nation. But in a “Perry Mason moment”, US negotiators realised it was being used to enrich uranium to 20 per cent, insiders said.
American intelligence feared Iran could enrich uranium from 20 per cent to 90 per cent, which is considered weapons grade, in as little as a month. The material could then be used to build a nuclear bomb.