After Scathing Attack on the Iran Deal, Will Menendez Hold Public Hearings?

The chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and a Democrat delivered a scathing critique Tuesday of the negotiations in Vienna, Austria to revive the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. He called instead for renewed pressure on Iran.

In Vienna, meanwhile, President Biden s Iran point man, Robert Malley, is conducting months-long, highly-secretive negotiations alongside colleagues from other JCPOA member countries. Three of Mr. Malley s underlings have recently resigned, or as the State Department would have it were reassigned. None of the three made public their reported disagreement with Mr. Malley s negotiation tactics.

Although Iran refuses to negotiate directly with the Americans, it seeks to reduce economic sanctions that were tightened under President Trump. Even as Washington s relations with Moscow are at a low ebb, Russia, an Iranian ally, is helping Mr. Malley s efforts to breathe life into the old agreement.

Will Mr. Menendez s call to revive the largely dormant debate over those efforts bring the efforts to a halt? Several sources in Washington tell me that Mr. Malley is only lightly supervised by Secretary of State Blinken and Mr. Biden. Both have allowed their Iran-friendly negotiator much leeway to push forward.

via www.nysun.com

I really do not understand what we hope to accomplish with this Iran deal. Is it just an effort to push Israel into a more subordinate position in the Middle East? Do we hope it will give us more influence with Iran to get them to stop supporting terrorism? Somebody please explain this because it does not look good.