Iranian Americans Ask Congress To Subpoena US Envoy On Secret Talks

As many US lawmakers pressure the Biden administration on Iran, more than 200 prominent Iranian Americans have asked Congress to subpoena President Biden's envoy.

In a letter to Rep. Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Iranian American activists asked him to subpoena US special envoy for Iran Robert Malley over his history of confidential engagements with high-ranking Islamic Republic regime officials with ill will towards the US, as well as his intent on pursuing a policy of appeasement in favor of the biggest state sponsor of terrorism.

“Mr. Malley’s conduct is not acceptable to us as Americans of Iranian origin, especially while we witness people inside Iran being slaughtered by the regime in the streets and tortured in prisons by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terrorist organization,” reads the letter.

Imploring McCaul to subpoena Malley to provide a rundown of what has been agreed upon with the regime, they added, “We consider access to and knowledge of this information to be unalienable right of the American people and our community.”

Some prominent signatories were; Reza Behrouz, physician and Professor at the University of Texas ; Yass Alizadeh, Assistant Professor of Persian language and literature at New York University; Atlanta-based attorney Sasan Nematbakhsh; DC-based legal scholar Shima Bozorgi; Amin Sophiamehr, philosophy instructor from Indiana University and Sara Eshaghi of the California-based group, “Action for Iran.”

The letter came as House Republicans are laying the groundwork to subpoena top Biden administration officials over clandestine efforts to secure a deal with Iran that would free up billions of dollars for the regime.