Tom Cotton: John Kerry ‘acted like Pontius Pilate’ during Iran negotiations

“Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blasted the news of “side-deals” between Iran and global Atomic Energy Agency surrounding the worldwide nuclear accord, comparing Secretary of State John Kerry to Pontius Pilate”. “He washed his hands, kicked it to the IAEA, knowing that Congress would not get this information unless someone went out to find it”. “Again, their Parchin military site is where they’ve tested detonators for nuclear weapons”.

Cotton has been a vocal opponent of Iran nuclear talks.

During a meeting Thursday of the House’s Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing, U.S. Rep French Hill, R-Little Rock, said he believed Kerry had been “dismissive” of questions about those agreements.

“This agreement is the worst of backroom deals”, Pompeo said.

As top administration officials prepared for what will be their first day of unclassified testimony in Congress Thursday in support of the Iran nuclear deal, a very public row erupted Wednesday over whether the administration could – and would – disclose what some lawmakers called the “secret side deals” of the agreement. Congress is in the process of reviewing the Iran deal and will have 60 days to vote on its approval. “The administration has an obligation under U.S. law to obtain the agreements and submit them to Congress so we can review them on behalf of the American people”. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) during a committee markup meeting on the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran on April 14, 2015. Upon reaching the separate deal with Iran, the IAEA said only that, “Iran and the IAEA agreed on another separate arrangement regarding the issue of Parchin”. “So there’s nothing in that regard that we know that they won’t know“. If you don’t have the past military work they’ve done on the nuclear program, you have no baseline for inspections.

This time, the bipartisan duo reportedly requested that Kerry provide them any available documents related to the IAEA-Iran agreements.

These deals “will remain secret and will not be shared with other nations, with Congress, or with the public”, the lawmakers said in a press release released by Pompeo’s office.

Pompeo and Cotton said in their letter that failing to produce the agreements “leaves Congress blind on critical information regarding Iran’s potential path to being a nuclear power and will have detrimental consequences for the ability of members to assess” the overall agreement.

White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice admitted Wednesday that the offers existed, they usually accompany the primary deal reached final week between Iran and the United States, France, Germany Russian Federation and China, reviews Breitbart.