Biden Makes A Secret Deal With Iran

Concerns were expressed by a group of 26 Republican senators over the Biden administration’s use of defiance to approve a nuclear agreement with Iran without consulting Congress.

The vast majority of Senate Republicans expressed their worries in a letter this past week sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as well as to Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the latest prisoner swap involving $6 billion delivered to the Iranian government in “secret negotiations.”

“The moment the Obama administration gave Iran access to $400 million of liquidated assets in the year 2016, we issued a dire warning that this deadly precedent will cost American lives. In yet another breach of the United States’s long-standing “no concessions” policy, the present administration is paying the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism a ransom payment that will exceed at least fifteen times the amount paid seven years after that,” the senators penned.

“Releasing such a large sum to the Iranian regime goes against this claim in every way and will only encourage them to take more hostages for financial or political gain,” the letter said.

The letter was written after Mike Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and a Republican from Ohio, said earlier in the month that the Biden administration’s prisoner exchange with Iran featured a new nuclear agreement with Iran. The New York Times also said that the deal could make it easier for Biden to reach his goal of sitting down with Iran to talk about nuclear weapons. Last summer, Biden tried to keep the nuclear deal made by the Obama government, but he failed. In 2018, former President Trump pulled out of a deal that he had often called “horrible” as well as “one-sided.”

Republican lawmakers said they wanted to see American citizens freed and released from the tyrannical Iranian government, but they were worried that the deal involved secret talks with the terrorist masters, which is against the Constitution. The Biden administration has made it much easier for Iran to process uranium into a form that can be used in nuclear weapons. This has led to rumors that Iran is about to begin conducting tests for nuclear weapons.

“We also have concerns that your administration is trying to get around Congress and find alternative methods of compensating Iran financially in an effort to renegotiate a replacement for the failed 2015 nuclear deal,” the senators wrote. “We can’t make a deal with the Iranian government that gives them money in exchange for bad behavior.”

“Given the danger this deal provides to American individuals’ safety abroad and broader U.S. national security interests,” the senators asked Blinken and Yellen a series of questions that they must respond to within 30 days.