The senator released the video a day after White House press secretary Josh Earnest targeted Cotton for his opposition to the Iran deal, which would lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
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Try parsing that distinction.
James Clapper, director of national intelligence, said, “We don’t know exactly what that arrangement is”.
“It’s not unusual”, Kimball said.
Talking to the press from the White House briefing room “is not part of my job description, but obviously it was a – I think, a fortuitous set of circumstances in the sense that this is an area in which I do have a lot of experience”, said Moniz, a nuclear physicist before joining the administration. “It’s been IAEA practice for almost 50 years to do it this way”.
The U.S. Congress has until September 17 to accept or reject the agreement.
He said members of Congress cannot accurately gauge the deal because the White House has not disclosed all of Iran’s side terms with the IAEA. “We are aware of what’s in it and are entirely comfortable with it”.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, reiterated his demand Thursday that the Obama administration turn over documents related to agreements between the IAEA and Iran that he described as “side agreements”.
Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said July 30 during a speech on TV that Iran will only allow inspectors from countries that have diplomatic relations with Tehran.
Iran’s priority is to improve recovery from its ageing oilfields and develop both onshore and offshore reserves shared with its neighbors in the south and the west. For those fields, Zamaninia said, Iran was ready to sign contracts for a period of 20-25 years.
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“One can argue this agreement between Iran and the IAEA should be more public”, he said in a voice-mail message from Paris. We are also proud of our heritage, and many of us visit Iran regularly and maintain strong ties with our friends and family in the country. “Nonetheless, if the IAEA wanted to make it more open, it could”. Secretary of State John Kerry has said there are none, and Amano’s agency speaks of a normal procedure in keeping the technical nuts and bolts of monitoring agreements between the IAEA and individual countries.
