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Revealed to the ieae. they've done an incredible investigation and found the former soviet scientist who worked there, got a bunch of documents, the guy had even published papers, and basically said to the iranians, like, hey, what's up, the jig is up, we know what you've done, and the iranians have been stalling to keep them out. so what's finally happening is the iranians are agreeing to answer questions and provide samples and photographs and actually let a group of ieae officials in. >> now, the ieae, the international atomic energy association is the essentially policeman for the world's ...

And that they're confident. so we have a lot of armchair inspectors, who think they know better than the iaea. but, like, i don't think they do. >> just walk me through this. so you say, so it is true that iran will hand over, from parchen, some body of samples, videos, and photos. and they say, this is the stuff you're asking for, here it is. the degree to which that strikes a layperson as an invitation at cheating, what i'm hearing you say, is that the actual investigators who have a body of data about this facility, whether the international ones or the american ones, are confident that the...

Iaea is incredibly confident that they can authenticate the samples is and authenticate the pictures. and my understanding is also that they briefed the u.s. about this, and we red teamed it at one of the national laboratories and that they're confident. so we have a lot of armchair inspectors, who think they know better than the iaea. but, like, i don't think they do. >> just walk me through this. so you say, so it is true that iran will hand over, from parchen, some body of samples, videos, and photos. and they say, this is the stuff you're asking for, here it is. the degree to which that st...

Reading the initial a.p. was that the iranians were going to be able to take their own samples and give them to the iaea, and say, yeah, that stuff's from parchen. is that what's going to happen? >> yeah, that sounds terrible, right? but, no, that's not what's going to happen. i mean, it's a wonderful destructive leak. and you've kind of got to admire the people who did it. but as best i can tell, what's going to happen is this. the iranians have to answer questions about this facility. and the iaea has already conducted an incredibly thorough investigation. and the last step of that is for th...