What motivation did the International Atomic Energy Agency have to write "propaganda" in an official report written to assess compliance with an international treaty?
Did the US intelligence community also write "propaganda" as well about Iran's compliance with the JCPOA?
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (IRAN)
FINDING
Previous issues leading to findings of violations of both Article II and Article III of the NPT by the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) were resolved as of the 2015 reporting period, despite Iran’s continued refusal to acknowledge or provide certain information about the military dimensions of its past nuclear activities.
At the end of December 2016, Iran continued to fulfill its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), resolving for now implementation issues that occurred during the 2016 reporting period.
Iran
Iran remains a significant challenge to the United States within the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Although
it continues to implement the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran is engaged in the region’s conflicts to further its security goals and expand its influence with neighboring countries. ...
The
JCPOA has curtailed Iran’s nuclear program and has established benchmarks for the lifting of UN restrictions on the import and export of certain advanced conventional weapons and ballistic missiles through 2020 and 2023, respectively—pending Iran’s continued compliance. If the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reaches the “broader conclusion” that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful before those dates, these restrictions will end. Since implementation of the JCPOA, the IAEA has been monitoring Iran’s nuclear-related obligations under the agreement. The agency continues to verify and report that Iran has not enriched uranium above allowable levels, maintains limits on centrifuge numbers, allows the IAEA to monitor nuclear fuel and heavy water stocks, and has been conducting enrichment R&D within JCPOA-prescribed limits.
The JCPOA wasn't perfect and it wasn't flawless. It was a compromise agreement that fully satisfied no-one and had significant room for improvement from both sides concerning compliance, monitoring, verification and reporting.
Yet, it was WORKING.
To the best of anyone's ability to determine, Iran was complying with the provisions of the agreement. It was limiting uranium enrichment to only that needed for nuclear power, it wasn't exceeding centrifuge numbers and it was allowing IAEA inspectors access (both in person and electronically/remotely) for verification.
You could argue that Iran wasn't fully complying with the provision limiting heavy water storage (with excess being stored in Oman). But, that would have been a fairly small detail to rectify.