Posted on 02/22/2021 2:07:37 PM PST by MarvinStinson
State Dept says Iran envoy Malley has engaged Congress; GOP leaders say he has yet to meet with them.
U.S-Iran Envoy [LONGTIME HAMAS ENABLER] Robert Malley has already held consultations with Chinese government leaders but has not spoken with senior Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress, including those with key positions on committees that deal with national security matters.
Republican lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Armed Services Committee all confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that Malley has yet to contact them for conversations about the administration’s decision this week to pursue direct talks with Iran. The policy shift contradicts earlier statements from the State Department vowing to continue pressure on Iran until it rolls back its revamped nuclear work, including its enrichment of uranium, the primary fuel for a weapon.
As the Biden administration charges forward with its Iran diplomacy, GOP leaders expressed concerns the Biden administration will ink a new nuclear agreement without working to address a litany of Republican concerns about massive sanctions relief that would provide the regime with access to much-needed cash resources.
"The Biden administration is repeating the Obama administration’s dangerously naïve mistakes when it comes to Iran," Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon. "This reckless approach will inevitably fail because the terror-sponsoring regime in Tehran cannot be trusted. One thing is clear though: Republicans will not accept a poorly conceived deal that plays into the hands of the Iranians. Any meaningful and enduring deal must be bipartisan and recognize Khamenei and the Iranian regime for what they truly are."
The State Department claimed multiple times this week when contacted by the Free Beacon that Malley "is in the early stages of engaging Members of Congress, allies, partners, and others." But the State Department would not tell the Free Beacon which members of Congress, if any, Malley has spoken with. Republican leaders see Malley's snub as an indication the Biden administration will not make good on its promises to consult with them on key foreign policy matters, most notably negotiations with Iran.
"While I have had very productive conversations with Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken and [White House National Security Adviser Jake] Sullivan and appreciate their outreach and willingness to work with us, I have yet to speak with Special Envoy Malley," Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Free Beacon on Saturday. "With the Biden administration’s concerning decision to make one-sided concessions to the Iranian regime as it attempts to reenter the flawed Iran deal, I would welcome a conversation with Mr. Malley—and soon."
Senior congressional sources further confirmed to the Free Beacon that Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including GOP lead senator Jim Risch (R., Idaho), also have not been consulted by Malley and the State Department on issues related to Iran and the nuclear accord. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking Republican, confirmed on Friday that Malley called Chinese leaders but has yet to consult Congress.
"Hearing reports that [President Joe Biden] might offer Iran substantial sanctions relief despite the surge of Iranian-backed terror in Africa, Iraq, and Lebanon," Inhofe said on Twitter. "But we have no information, because Iran envoy [Malley] has apparently briefed China but not Congress."
Inhofe was referring to a Free Beacon report detailing the State Department’s decision this week to avoid confirming Malley’s conversations with Chinese leaders. Following the Beacon’s report, the State Department was forced to acknowledge Malley’s early powwow with the Chinese, but it would not provide specific details about the conversation.
Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress are not pleased. They see the administration as rushing into new negotiations with Tehran at a time when it continues to sponsor terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in the region. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, for instance, struck American and Saudi Arabian positions just days after the Biden administration removed the group from the U.S. terrorism list. Critics say the move is an early gift to Iran and meant to pave the way for renewed diplomacy on Tehran’s nuclear program.
The United States also informed the United Nations this week that it is withdrawing the Trump administration’s decision to reimpose all international sanctions on Iran, paving the way for a ban on Iranian arms sales to expire. This will permit countries like China and Russia to legally arm Iran.
"Secretary Blinken said over and over the Biden administration would consult with the Senate before making any significant moves on Iran," said one senior GOP Senate aide. "Now they've dropped sanctions on Iranian terrorists and lifted United Nations sanctions, but Malley is too busy working with China to come up to the Hill. At this rate he'll meet with [Iranian foreign minister] Zarif before he meets with Republican senators."
For the sake of the 25th amendment it’s better he doesn’t.
Mitch better fetch President Harris some coffee...
So what?
Just don't sell any Saudi royals life insurance.
...GOP leaders....”
Heh, heh, heh...
Isn’t that highly oxymoronic [with the heavy emphasis on the moron part]?
Yet more proof the the progs are no longer members of this Republic or actual functionaries of our government.
They are rogue and no longer Americans.
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Iran didn’t destroy us. Nor did Russia or China. We did.
If we don’t address our upcoming economic & moral collapse really soon, nothing else matters.
The Republic is dying the death not much different than the Roman.
Democrats WILL NOT acknowledge ANY Republican who does not kiss their Democrat fat ass!
And, they will harass, indict, prosecute and imprison the ones who don’t!
And I despise them more than they hate America.
Are you required to attend the planning sessions to make
public statements that echo the Democrat's conclusions?
I think Mitch will get mileage as if he was in those
meetings.
He'll be sure to push back be a pushover.
Mr. Malley was colluding with Iranian foreign minister Zarif during the Trump administration. He only deigns to speak with pro-Iranian people including the Chinese Communist Party.
The Biden administration steamrolls Congress because they can.
Mitch better fetch President Harris some coffee...
LOL. They don’t call the GOP the Doormat Party for nothing. Team Biden is wiping their boots on the submissive GOP and you just have to laugh at their impotence.
“It’s like taking candy from a STUPID baby...”
let’s get something straight. Iran was trying to buy centrifuges back in 1991 from the USA. Personal experience. FBI raid, where are they now.
We can SAVE AMERICA!
But it will be a tough battle!
#5. Marv. Robert Malley’s father, Simon, was a founder, in 1948, of one of three Communist Party of Egypt formed that year. There is a book that might have some of this information but I think it is in Arabic and I haven’t found an English book version or one that has a lot of information on this man.
However, he moved the family to France, possibly in the 60’s and published a Marxist newspaper roughly entitled “L’Asia et Afrique”. Eventually the French Police/Intelligence agencies got Simon and the WHOLE FAMILY expelled from the country basically as “enemies of France” and possible ties to terrorist organizations.
Don’t have my notes with me right now but my timeline is reasonably accurate. Interesting that there is so little on Simon Malley on the internet, or at least was that way when I checked on him years ago when he appeared as one of Obama’s top advisors on Islam, terrorism and re ties to extremist countries.
He was written up in a www.DiscoverTheNetworks.org profile on the “International Crisis Group”, again with very little information on his Marxist, pro-terrorist leanings.
There might be an entry at www.keywiki.org on Robert Malley or his name might show up in connection with some Marxist organization front group(s).
This many is very dangerous to America’s security, which is why the Biden/Harris/OBAMA administration today picked him. Don’t think that Obama isn’t running the show in who gets picked for both Cabinet and Department/Agency level positions.
As soon as I saw Gina McCarthy (former EPA head and idiot) was back, and the same for Janet Yellen and brainless Psaki (I’ll mention her in a separate post re something I found on her), I knew that the “Red Hand” of Obama was not “back in action”, but always “in action” controlling his braid-addled puppet Biden and the always ambitious human mattress pad, Kamala “Kameltoe” Harris.
Treason is back in season and people are going to die because of it.
The same for Merrick Garland, a total fool.
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