{"id":2028230,"date":"2023-09-11T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-hold-its-first-hearings-on-iran-since-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:47:08","slug":"house-to-hold-its-first-hearings-on-iran-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-hold-its-first-hearings-on-iran-since-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"House to hold first Iran hearings since 2020."},"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\">16<\/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-to-hold-its-first-hearings-on-iran-since-2020%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=2028230&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>The \u200dHouse of\u2062 Representatives \u200dHolds Hearings on Iran Policy<\/h2>\n<p>The House of Representatives \u200cis\u200c scheduled this week to hold\u2062 its first hearings\u2064 on Iran since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has come \u200dunder fire on the right for its Tehran policy\u2014from seeking to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal to loosening\u2062 the Trump-era\u2064 &#8220;maximum\u2064 pressure&#8221; campaign. Rob Malley, the point person on \u200dthe negotiations to re-enter the deal or\u2063 have a new deal with Iran, \u200dhas been on leave since his security\u200d clearance came \u200cunder review for reasons publicly unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Regardless, the \u200dDepartment of\u200d Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-announces-first-criminal-resolution-involving-illicit-sale-and-transport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> on Sept. 8 it has \u2063reached the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-hold-its-first-hearings-on-iran-since-2020\/\" title=\"House to hold first Iran hearings since 2020.\">criminal resolution related<\/a> to the illicit trade of Iranian \u2062oil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/iran-china-agree-to-deepen-strategic-cooperation-through-multilateral-alliances-5480439\">Iran, China Agree to Deepen Strategic Cooperation Through Multilateral Alliances<\/a> &#8211; 8\/25\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/us-tests-dynamic-iran-deterrence-posture-with-marines-riding-shotgun-on-tankers-5478846\">US Tests &#8216;Dynamic&#8217;\u200d Iran Deterrence\u2063 by Deploying \u2064Marines on Commercial Tankers<\/a> &#8211; 8\/23\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee are set to host this week&#8217;s \u200btwo hearings,\u200d which have similar titles. No Biden administration officials are scheduled to testify in either hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs\u200c has \u200dset \u2063Sept.\u2064 13 for the first hearing, titled &#8220;A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration\u2019s \u200dFailures on Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses \u200dinclude Richard\u200b Goldberg, who worked on Iran policy at the National Security Council during the Trump administration and is \u2063now a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turtle-power-trump-adviser-preemptively-declares-desantis-campaign-reboot-a-failure\/\" title=\"Trump adviser predicts DeSantis campaign reboot will fail.\">senior\u2063 adviser<\/a> at the Foundation for the Defense\u200c of Democracies (FDD), a Washington think \u2062tank known to be hawkish on, even threatened by, the Iranian regime; Jewish \u200dInstitute\u200b for National Security President and CEO Michael Makovsky; and \u200dVictoria Coates, who was\u2063 Deputy National \u2064Security Adviser for Middle East and North African Affairs in the Trump administration and is currently vice president of the \u2062Kathryn\u2062 and Shelby Cullom\u2062 Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at \u2062The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, according to the House Oversight\u2062 Committee \u200dpress release, &#8220;will examine how\u2063 the Biden administration has repeatedly engaged\u200d in secret\u2062 negotiations with Iran, ignoring the emerging threats arising from Iran and its proxies&#8221; and &#8220;look at ways the Biden administration has fallen short in assisting Americans trapped abroad and circumstances around dismissals \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-environmental-appointee-faces-conflict-of-interest-scrutiny-on-hill\/\" title=\"Biden Environmental Appointee Faces Conflict of Interest Scrutiny on Hill\">high-level officials<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-overwhelmingly-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem\/\" title=\"Senate Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem\">foreign policy decisions<\/a> regarding Iran continue to defy logic and \u2062are actively making Americans less safe at \u2062home and\u2062 abroad,&#8221; said\u200d the subcommittee&#8217;s chairman, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite promises, the Biden administration has failed to deliver transparency throughout negotiations of Iran\u2019s nuclear arsenal program and in its murky decision \u2063to dismiss high-level U.S. envoys,&#8221; \u2062he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Grothman cited American\u2063 hostages detained in Iran being transferred last month from prison to house\u200b arrest, reportedly as part of\u200d a \u2064deal whereby the United\u2063 States would give Iran\u200c $6 billion in\u200c oil sanctions relief. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Iran would not get such relief in any deal and that oil revenue \u2063would be allowed \u2062to go only into restricted accounts to be used for strictly\u200b humanitarian purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Iranian regime poses a great threat to American foreign interests and stability in the Middle East\u200d region, and this hearing is a great opportunity to examine all these issues and provide\u2062 Americans at home with \u2064what the Biden administration refuses to: \u2063transparency and answers,&#8221; said \u200dMr. Grothman.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Goldberg told\u2064 The Epoch Times that the hearing is part of confronting the administration&#8217;s Iran policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration is skirting a number of Iran-related laws enacted by Congress with \u2062overwhelming\u200b bipartisan majorities. Congress needs to defend its\u2064 Iran sanctions architecture,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The second \u200bhearing is set for \u200cSept.\u2063 14. Hosted by the Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia,\u2063 it is titled &#8220;Iran\u2019s Escalating Threats: Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Iran\u2019s Malign Activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Witnesses include Norman Roule, who was \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: 'If You're Looking for Election Rigging, Look No Further' Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">national intelligence<\/a> manager for \u2064Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under both Republican \u200cand Democrat presidents; \u2062Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at FDD; Iranian author and activist Masih Alinejad; and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and \u200cdirector of\u2063 foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, a left-wing think\u2063 tank in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise\u2064 Institute, a right-wing think tank in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives will hold its first Iran hearings since 2020. The Biden administration faces criticism for its Tehran policy, including efforts to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and easing the Trump-era &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaign. Rob Malley, leading negotiations to re-enter the deal, will testify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":2028231,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2028230","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}