The Biden administration quietly waived sanctions on Iran to allow the hardline regime to sell electricity to Iraq, according to a non-public notification obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that was provided to Congress just as nuclear talks between the United States and Tehran resumed this week.
The timing of the waiver notification-which was signed Nov. 19 but not transmitted to Congress until Nov. 29, the day nuclear negotiations resumed-has prompted accusations the Biden administration is offering concessions to Tehran to generate goodwill as talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal restart following a months-long standoff.
Iran insists the United States unwind all economic sanctions that were imposed by the Trump administration, a demand the Biden administration says it is willing to make good on.
The sanctions waiver gives Iran another 120 days to sell electricity to Iraq without facing penalties, an arrangement that has generated income for the hardline regime.
The spokesman would not comment on the timing of the waiver, or if it was part of an effort to ease nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter on Friday that "a good deal is within reach if the West shows goodwill." This includes the removal of all sanctions and other measures aimed at keeping Iran from completing construction on a functional nuclear weapon.
"The Biden administration has asserted that the U.S. will not allow Iran to use this round of talks as cover to accelerate its nuclear program. Iran is showing that it needs no pretext to continue on its path to a nuclear weapons capability. It is speeding in that direction today," UANI CEO Mark D. Wallace, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement.
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