Iran under fire ahead of deal deadline
A look at the Middle East issues Congress will be addressing the week of March 16.
WASHINGTON — Republicans continue to criticize Iran on multiple fronts this coming week as international negotiators approach the March 24 deadline for a deal.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing March 19 on whether the talks "pave" Tehran's path to a nuclear path, language used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress. State Department No. 2 Tony Blinken and Treasury's acting undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Adam Szubin, will argue they do the opposite.
On March 18, the committee's Middle East and Western Hemisphere panels hold a joint hearing on Iran and Hezbollah's influence in the Americas.
And we haven't heard the last of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who rose to international prominence with his open letter to the Iranians. He's speaking to US academic Walter Russell Mead on March 18 as part of the Hudson Institute's inaugural event for a series of "Dialogues on American Strategy and Statesmanship."
