While Iran talks, it builds....

As I keep saying, Iran has been very clear it will not stop its nuclear activities....

Oftentimes in police work, a crime is identified only because a perpetrator's ego rises above his concern for remaining silent about his accomplishment. The same is true of Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani. Leaving office in 2005, he boasted how, during his two-year tour, he had deceived the Western powers. In his recent book "The Rise of Nuclear Iran," author Dore Gold details how Mr. Rowhani bragged, "When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in parts of the facility in Isfahan." (Isfahan is where the fuel conversion for Iran's nuclear weapons program took place.) The Isfahan project had not yet begun when talks with the Europeans had, but it was completed while those talks continued.

Mr. Gold explains Mr. Rowhani's diplomatic deception: "Thus, while Rowhani sat at the negotiating table, participating in the first trial run of the West's engagement with it over the nuclear question, Iran quietly moved from having no uranium conversion capability whatsoever to actually completing its clandestine conversion plant."

As further evidence of Iran's deceit, Mr. Rowhani's success was achieved not under current Islamic extremist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but under purportedly moderate President Mohammad Khatami, who supposedly was seeking better relations with the West at that time. He wasn't -- Iran made us believe otherwise, artfully employing diplomatic deception to play us for fools.