Any agreement with Iran must be approved by Congress – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, Michael McCall, the chairman of the foreign relations committee of the US House of Representatives, in a letter to the president of this country, Joe Biden, took a hostile stance on the recent speculations that the Biden administration is trying to reach a new nuclear deal with Iran, while expressing his concern. Any agreement of the Biden administration must be approved by the US Congress.
In this letter, which he published on his Twitter account, McCall wrote, following the baseless claims about Iran’s nuclear program: instead of using diplomatic leverage and US military deterrence to prevent Iran from participating in these evil activities, in exchange for a A false commitment to de-escalation rewards Iran’s bad behavior.
He continued: I ask the government to remember that according to American laws and in accordance with the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Bill (INARA), any temporary agreement, understanding or contract with Iran must be submitted to Congress.
The head of the foreign relations committee of the US House of Representatives also reminded that the request of this committee from the US State Department for the testimony of Rob Mali, the US special representative for Iran affairs, in front of the foreign relations committee, is still under review since April 11 (April 22). It has not yet been answered. In another part of the letter, McCall wrote that “the continuation of this non-transparent behavior and lack of consultation with Congress is deeply troubling.”
In the last few days, several speculations and news about the nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States were raised by various regional and international media circles. The visit of Haytham bin Tariq, the Sultan of Oman and the closing of two alleged safeguard cases of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as the exchange of prisoners between Iran and Europe, intensified these speculations.
In this context, on Thursday (June 18), “Middle East Eye” claimed in a report that Iran and the United States are approaching a temporary agreement that will provide an opening in some sanctions against the reduction of Iran’s enrichment activities.
Both Iran and the United States have denied these reports, and a spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House told the media on Thursday, in response to the Middle East Eye article, that “this report is false and misleading, and any report regarding a temporary agreement with Iran is false. » Iran also rejected not the negotiations, but the interim agreement, and Iran’s representative at the United Nations emphasized that “there is no interim agreement to replace the JCPOA and it is not on the agenda.