“Robert Mali” was summoned to the US Senate – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Democrat Bob Menendez, has asked Rob Mali, the US special envoy for Iran, to answer the committee’s questions about the current Vienna talks, the Times reported.

This meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 9, but is not scheduled to be public. Planning to hold the US Senate accountable comes a day after Senator Menendez called on US President Joe Biden to take a tougher line on Iran by withdrawing from the Vienna talks.

Menendez’s remarks, as if coming out of the mouths of Israeli officials, focus on the claim that “we can not allow Iran to threaten us with a bad or temporary agreement that would give it a chance to continue to strengthen its nuclear capabilities.” Give ».

The Democratic senator also expressed dissatisfaction with China’s increase in Iranian oil imports, saying the Beijing government had bought $ 10 billion worth of crude oil from Iran last year, in defiance of existing sanctions.

Menendez, meanwhile, is one of the Democrats who also opposed the 2015 nuclear deal. Earlier this month (January), more than 100 Republicans in Congress voiced similar anti-Iranian stances.

Rhetoric against the Vienna talks comes as Democrat Joe Biden’s government has not yet taken any concrete steps to address Iran’s concerns over verification and guarantees.

On the other hand, Iran strongly rejects any temporary agreement with the United States, while at the same time giving no value to the artificial deadlines that overshadow the process of restoring the rights of the Iranian people.