Congressional Republicans are spearheading a legislative effort to bar the Biden administration from lifting Trump Administration-imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as part of a new nuclear agreement with Tehran.
Free Beacon A Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol Hill discloses that the removal of sanctions on the IRGC could “allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States,” according to a copy of that memo exclusively obtained by the Free Beacon.
“Removing the IRGC from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list is a non-nuclear related concession to Iran which would reward terrorist blackmail, allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States, weaken law enforcement’s ability to go after those providing support or resources to the IRGC, and make it harder to hold those outside U.S. soil criminally accountable for helping the IRGC,” the analysis states.
Reps. Brian Mast (R., Fla.) and Scott Perry (R., Pa.) introduced on Monday the Preventing Terror Sympathizers from Appeasing Terrorists Act, a bill that would block the White House from delisting the IRGC from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list without congressional approval.
The bill was designed to stop the Biden administration from delisting the IRGC as part of a package of concessions to Iran written into the new nuclear accord, which is nearing completion and likely to include a provision that waives key sanctions on the IRGC, potentially allowing Iranian terrorists to more easily enter the United States, as the Free Beacon first reported on Friday.
Sanctions on the IRGC—which were first imposed by the Trump administration as part of its “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran—remain one of the final sticking points in talks. Iran is pressing the Biden administration to nix this designation, even as the IRGC actively plots the assassination of top Trump administration officials and wages attacks on U.S. forces in the region.
The administration’s bid to remove these sanctions is fueling opposition to the deal from both Democratic and Republican foreign policy leaders, who worry such a concession will embolden Iran’s global terrorism and spy operations. Carveouts in the deal that provide Russia with billions-of-dollars in revenue have also generated outrage among lawmakers.
The Mast-Perry bill is one of several pieces of legislation meant to force the Biden administration into consulting with Congress on the deal.
While the White House is required under a 2015 law to present any deal with Iran to Congress for approval, it has becoming increasingly clear the administration will bypass this law. A separate piece of bipartisan legislation introduced in the House last week and first reported by the Free Beacon would require the Biden administration to disclose how sanctions relief for Iran will boost the IRGC’s capabilities.
“Not only is President Biden blatantly circumventing the Constitution he swore to defend, but he’s also putting Americans at risk in an effort to appease terrorists,” Mast told the Free Beacon. “Since the president refuses to uphold his oath of office, we’re introducing this bill to prohibit him from making executive decisions when it comes to national security such as delisting known terrorist organizations.”
Language in the Mast-Perry bill states that the IRGC’s terrorism designation “may not be revoked or rescinded, except by a joint resolution of Congress.” While the House remains under narrow Democratic control, mounting opposition to the new accord on both sides of the aisle is likely to give the legislation a chance at passing.
The Free Beacon reported last week that Democratic and Republican HFAC members emerged from a recent classified briefing on the deal with increasing skepticism. The possible removal of the IRGC’s terror designation is among the top concerns, according to congressional sources familiar with the matter.
Perry, an HFAC member, said the Biden administration’s focus on reaching a new nuclear deal endangers U.S. national security. “When it comes to protecting Americans, President Biden just never fails to fail,” Perry said. “That’s why we need to ensure he can’t invite further aggression from terrorists through his inherent if not willful weakness.”
“It’s hard to believe you have to hammer home to a U.S. president that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization responsible for murdering Americans, but here we are,” he said.
Yep they will do the same to you and your country as they did to mine (germany), they let all in telling us that we have to be tolerant and we have to give and give and give and they tell us that they have human rights that we dont have and they give our land and hauses plus our money to them and should we say anything then we are nazis and islamophobs and even antisemetic. They are ruining our countries and our way to live and the worst thing is we let them get away with it.
Senile deviates like Joseph Robinette Biden are always eager to appease tyrants and terrorists of all 3rd and 4th world ideologies !
Islamic savagery coming out from either end of its ass- Shia, Sunni, what else? Nation of Islam is next.
WICKED TRAITOR George Soros puppet/Obama puppet Biden and their EVIL SATANIST regime Sold their Souls and Sold Out America and America’s allies to America’s Most Dangerous Enemies.
They fully intend for Iran and other Muslim terrorists and Muslim organizations to invade America. Wage daily Jihad and perpetrate Huge terrorist attacks on Americans.
And CONQUER America.
Obama has to be behind this, too. Anything to aid Iran. It explains why he’s building an Oceanside mansion in Hawaii far, far away from the coming ka booms in America.
I’m sure Obama is the puppeteer.
Yep remember the time he took office…there he said that he is a muslim and nobody cared, i cared and i said that that will make big problems. This is what happens when a muslim takes power and he has no love towards us unbelievers. That is Americas own fault just as in london a muslim has power and he is using it to keep the british down or how can they march by the thousands yelling fuck britain we want sharia and islam or they pray in thousands on the streets. That is how they do it we let them and our own people help them keep us down so what do all expect or what are all waiting for. Stop the human rights bull and all stops.
It’s a fearful time in the USA ( & the world). In America there is no real southern border, the inner cities are under seige by marxist provoked racialist African-American criminal gangs, the cost of living is soaring beyond people’s resources, Soros funded public prosecutors are not prosecuting serious felony cases, police departments are being defunded and the spector of world war looms over us. And I did not even mention the proliferation of nuclear weapons by terrorist states like DPRK and Iran. But not to fear! Sleepy Joe and Kamala are on the job.