Yukiya Amano of the global Atomic Energy Agency agreed to the August 5 session after receiving a letter requesting his presence from all of the lawmakers on the committee, the top two senators on the panel said in a statement Friday.
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On Saturday, Iran’s ambassador and permanent envoy to the IAEA Reza Najafi urged global Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to refrain from leaking confidential information on the recent agreement between Iran and UN nuclear organization. Najafi, the chief Iranian delegate to the IAEA, quotes White House spokesman Josh Earnest as saying that if U.S. or Israeli military action were needed in the future, it would be improved “because we’d been spending the intervening number of years gathering significantly more detail about Iran’s nuclear program”.
Republican leaders of the Senate have accused the Obama administration of making secret deals with Iran that go beyond the publicly known nuclear pact, purportedly involving the nuclear agency.
Critics of the talks with the longtime U.S. nemesis have cast the agreements as “secret side deals” and have demanded that their contents be revealed.
“We look forward to discussing the IAEA’s monitoring and verifying of Iran’s nuclear-related obligations under the [joint comprehensive plan of action]”, they added. Other than noting the White House’s willingness to say anything, I find the substance of Jahn’s report weird beyond immediate comment.
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Amano’s trip comes amid Iranian accusations that Washington is violating the deal by suggesting that that the enhanced IAEA surveillance would bring the benefit of making any potential attack on Tehran’s atomic program more potent. Behind closed doors, to take an example from yesterday, Obama told Democratic congressmen hearing him out on the deal that if they were to help override his veto of congressional disapproval of the deal, he would do everything in his power to undermine their disapproval.
