{"id":1983684,"date":"2023-07-26T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-to-question-state-department-on-iran-envoy-suspension-this-week-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:03:49","slug":"house-foreign-affairs-to-question-state-department-on-iran-envoy-suspension-this-week-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-to-question-state-department-on-iran-envoy-suspension-this-week-report\/","title":{"rendered":"House Foreign Affairs Committee will question the State Department regarding the suspension of Iran envoy this week, according to a report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-foreign-affairs-to-question-state-department-on-iran-envoy-suspension-this-week-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>State \u2062Department Officials\u200b to Meet with \u200dHouse Foreign Affairs Committee<\/h2>\n<p>Officials in the \u2062State Department are expected to meet with the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week to address concerns \u200cregarding the suspension of President \u2062Joe Biden&#8217;s Iran envoy, Rob Malley.<\/p>\n<p>The exact date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-to-question-state-department-on-iran-envoy-suspension-this-week-report\/\" title=\"House Foreign Affairs Committee will question the State Department regarding the suspension of Iran envoy this week, according to a report.\">closed-door\u2063 meeting<\/a> has not been set,\u200c but it is a result of an agreement between the State\u2063 Department and the Foreign Affairs committee. The State Department has not provided any comments \u200bon the reason\u2064 for\u200d Malley&#8217;s suspension last month,\u2063 but multiple\u2064 reports suggest that there\u2062 may \u200bhave been mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Raised by Rep. Michael McCaul<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the problem is \u200dwith his background checks\u200b and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-rolls-out-plan-to-rip-the-woke-out-of-americas-armed-forces\/\" title=\"DeSantis unveils strategy to eliminate woke culture from US military.\">security \u2064clearances<\/a>, only what&#8217;s been reported \u200bthat classified documents have been mishandled,&#8221; said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) during an interview with \u200dWashington Post Live\u2063 earlier\u200d this month.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul further emphasized the seriousness of the situation, stating, &#8220;Now, that could be something very small\u2062 in nature, or it could be something\u2063 very, very serious. And if I carry it to the most serious extreme, \u200dif\u200d he has leaked very sensitive or classified information to \u200cour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">foreign adversaries<\/a> like Iran or \u2064Russia, that&#8217;s a very serious act that would fall under treason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the chairman \u2062of the Foreign Affairs Committee, McCaul expressed his lack of knowledge regarding the specifics of \u2063the investigation and\u200d suspension. However, \u200dhe stressed the importance of\u2062 ensuring that no \u200cserious crimes were committed \u200ddue to the high level of trust placed in Malley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to know what \u2062is going on.\u2063 We need to be briefed in the Congress,&#8221; McCaul \u200basserted. &#8220;This is the very same \u200cman who \u2064negotiated the\u200d Iran deal.\u2064 This \u200bis a man that the \u200dnation has put \u2064their biggest\u200d confidence in,\u200c with some of the biggest secrets related to\u200c Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evidence-of-undeclared-nuclear-activities-discovered-at-locations-in-iran-that-raise-new-concerns-report\/\" title=\"\u2018Evidence Of Undeclared Nuclear Activities\u2019 Discovered At Locations In Iran That Raise New Concerns: Report\">nuclear weapons program<\/a>, and if there&#8217;s anything that has compromised that,\u200b Congress \u2064needs to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malley&#8217;s Background and Suspension<\/p>\n<p>Rob Malley has served in the \u2064State Department under several Democratic administrations and was appointed as \u200bthe Iran envoy in \u200d2021. He was initially \u2063placed on partial leave in the spring, but\u200b in June, it was escalated to full-time\u200d and unpaid leave. The\u200c investigation into Malley&#8217;s security \u2063clearance involves the FBI and Diplomatic Security, as reported by \u200cFox News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more \u2064from The Washington \u2064Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee for officials to provide clarification on the suspension of Rob Malley, President Biden&#8217;s Iran envoy. The meeting, yet to be scheduled, will be held behind closed doors, ensuring a confidential discussion between the two parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}