Lawmakers to Biden: No More Secret Negotiations with Iran

Republican lawmakers in Congress are fed up with the Biden administration's secret diplomacy with Iran and refusal to inform the American public about what concessions will be granted to the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism as part of a new nuclear deal.

With negotiations stuck in their final stage amid Iran's demands that all U.S. sanctions be lifted on its chief terrorist outfit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Republican foreign policy leaders are pressing top Biden administration officials to publicly brief Congress on the state of diplomatic talks.

During more than a year of negotiations, the Biden administration has refused to brief Congress in an open setting.

Biden administration officials, including U.S.-Iran envoy Robert Malley, have only consented to classified briefings, unlike the Obama administration, which discussed the talks openly with lawmakers and the public.

Classified briefings on the deal-which came after lawmakers from both parties chastised the administration for cutting Congress out of the negotiations-are no longer tolerable, Tenney and her colleagues say.

Since negotiations began last year, following the Trump administration's 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear accord, Iran has orchestrated scores of terror attacks on U.S. outposts, citizens, and allies in the region.

Much of the Biden administration's diplomacy remains a secret and is taking place behind closed doors in Vienna, where Russia is serving as the United States' top interlocutor even as it wages an unprovoked war in Ukraine.

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