What is Biden’s Iran Envoy Hiding?

What is Biden’s Iran Envoy Hiding?

NEWS WEEK-ON 4/14/22

REP. CLAUDIA TENNEY
As we enter the second year of the Biden administration and inch closer to the possibility of another failed nuclear deal with Iran, Special Envoy Robert Malley has yet to appear before Congress for a public hearing to provide the American people with an update on the negotiations. Mr. Malley was appointed to the position on January 28, 2021, after serving in the same capacity under President Barack Obama and negotiating the first failed Iran nuclear deal in 2015.

Since his reappointment, Mr. Malley has refused to testify publicly before Congress, unlike his predecessor, Brian Hook, who testified on several occasions. Earlier this year, I led a group of my colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding that Mr. Malley testify. He ultimately agreed to a classified briefing behind closed doors that raised more questions than it answered.

Bombshell developments over the last several weeks shed light on why Mr. Malley may be refusing to testify publicly. Recent reports have revealed that as Russia wages an unprovoked and murderous war in Ukraine, President Biden is bizarrely fixated on securing Russian cooperation to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran. The reports out of Vienna signal that a new deal could be imminent, and that it is even worse than the original deal Mr. Malley negotiated.

Now we know why President Biden and his administration have not been forthright and transparent with the American people. Their proposed deal would be terrible for our security.

First, they did not want us to know that the regime in Tehran could receive massive sanctions relief—perhaps as much as $90 billion—in return for minimal concessions. This even includes removing sanctions on some of Iran’s worst human rights abusers and terrorists for non-nuclear activities, as well as on Iran’s brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the State Department rightly designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2019.