Congress Needs Update on Iran Nuclear Deal Talks, Lawmaker Says
The Biden administration should update Congress on the ongoing Iran nuclear deal negotiations, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said. “It is vital Congress have a clear view over how any agreement with Iran does or does not address the full scope of Iran’s malign activities,” he wrote in an Aug. 23 letter to the White House, in which he criticized the administration for its “lack of recent engagement with Congress” on the talks. “I urge you to provide a series of briefings to Congress” as “soon as possible,” he said.
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The White House didn’t comment. McCaul and other Republicans previously urged the administration to provide more transparency during the negotiation process and said Congress must review any new deal reached with Iran over its nuclear commitments (see 2106150029, 2203070008 and 2208150049). The State Department recently said it rebuffed requests from Iran to lift sanctions on the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in exchange for Iran's return to compliance under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (see 2208150006).