US House Subcommittee to Review Iran Nuclear Agreement: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The US House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa plans to hold a hearing on September 17 to examine the Iran nuclear agreement.
The hearing is aimed at discussing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached between Iran and world powers on July 14 in the Austrian city of Vienna.
It will start at 2:00 pm (local time) in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington and continue for three hours.
Emanuele Ottolenghi, of Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Matthew Levitt, Former Wexler Fellow Director; and Suzanne Maloney, Interim Deputy Director Center for Middle East Policy ,the Brookings Institution, are among those scheduled to address the event.
42 Democrats voted on Thursday in favor of the agreement and prevented a resolution disapproving the deal.
Under a law Obama signed in May, Congress has a 60-day period ending on September 17 to pass a resolution disapproving of the accord.
If such a resolution were to pass, and survive Obama's promised veto, it would bar the president from waiving many US sanctions on Tehran, a key component of the nuclear deal.
