Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (INARA)

November 15, 2023 | |

Iran Receives Access to $10 Billion Thanks to U.S. Sanctions Waiver

The Biden administration on November 14 extended a sanctions waiver to allow Iran to access upwards of $10 billion in electricity revenue once held in escrow in Iraq. The waiver...

November 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief 

Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...

September 12, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden has a secret, illegal deal with Iran that gives mullahs everything they want

In the latest phase of an unacknowledged and unlawful nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, President Joe Biden this week formally approved giving the world’s leading state sponsor...

August 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

The Disastrous Implications of the $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal

President Joe Biden’s decision to trade $6 billion for five American citizens unlawfully detained in Tehran isn’t just the largest hostage ransom payment in American history—it’s...

July 19, 2023 | |

In Major Reversal, U.S. Lifts Restraints on Iranian Income From Electricity Sales

The Biden administration this week reportedly issued a national security waiver allowing Iraq to pay for the import of Iranian electricity by depositing cash in Iranian bank accounts throughout the...

July 7, 2023 | |

Non-Enforcement of U.S. Oil Sanctions on Iran Hits New High 

Following weeks of indications that the United States was moving toward an unacknowledged nuclear agreement with Iran that would include the non-enforcement of U.S. oil sanctions and the release of...

June 12, 2023 | |

U.S. Permits Iraq to Release Billions to Iran

The Biden administration has authorized the transfer of $2.76 billion from Iraq to Iran, Reuters reported on June 10. The news comes within days of emerging reports that Washington hopes to trade Iranian...

June 9, 2023 | |

U.S. Denies Reports of Cash Offers to Iran for Limited Enrichment Concessions

Multiple reports this week suggest the United States is offering financial incentives to the Islamic Republic of Iran in exchange for Tehran slowing its production of enriched uranium. On June 7, Haaretz...

April 3, 2023 | |

U.S., Iran Reportedly Discussing New Interim Nuclear Deal

Latest Developments Axios reported today that the Biden administration has been discussing the contours of a new nuclear deal with Tehran since January. The prospective agreement would lift some U.S....

October 4, 2022 | |

Release of Hostages in Iran May Be Linked to U.S. Sanctions Relief

Iranian state media reports have linked Tehran’s one-week furlough of an American hostage on Saturday to a potentially forthcoming U.S. sanctions waiver authorizing the transfer to Iran of $7 billion. These funds are currently frozen in South Korea. While the National Security Council was quick to deny such a linkage, the Biden administration did not confirm or deny whether it would authorize the release of the $7 billion — a step previously reported as part of the sequencing of a new nuclear deal. In addition to its release of the hostage, Iranian-American Siamak Namazi, Tehran allowed his ailing father, Iranian-American Baquer Namazi, to leave the country. Iran imprisoned the elder Namazi from 2016 to 2018 and has since barred him from exiting Iran.

September 23, 2022 |

U.S. May Allow Payment to Iran for Hostages

The Biden administration may be preparing to issue a national security waiver authorizing the transfer of $7 billion to Iran from South Korean-based accounts subject to U.S. terrorism sanctions. The transfer...

September 16, 2022 | |

Will Congress Hold a Vote on Iran Deal Before Sanctions Relief?

The Biden administration is signaling it will continue to pursue a nuclear agreement with Iran. This endeavor faces bipartisan opposition while questions swirl over whether and how the president will comply...

September 12, 2022 | Matthew Zweig, Gabriel Noronha

Biden may be plotting to keep Congress out of the Iran nuclear deal

Excerpt Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have once again nearly concluded indirect talks over the “final text” of a nuclear deal. Like the 2015 deal formally known as...

September 2, 2022 | |

Iran Deal May Provide Billions in IRGC-Connected Sanctions Relief Prior To Congressional Review

On day one of a new Iran nuclear deal, the United States would reportedly repeal three executive orders that imposed sanctions on major sectors of Iran’s economy connected to the Islamic Revolutionary...

June 23, 2022 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Matthew Zweig

Treasury Targets Iranian Sanctions-Busting Network as Nuclear Talks Remain Stalled

The Biden administration last week sanctioned a network of Iranian petrochemical producers and related front companies, a response to the deadlock in negotiations with Tehran over a return to the 2015 nuclear...

February 18, 2022 | Andrea Stricker |

A New, Weaker Iran Deal Would Pave a Path to the Nuclear Threshold

Even a new deal might give us a ‘breakout time’ of only a few months.

February 4, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

The New Worst Deal in History

Iran was under extreme pressure a year ago. Now it’s on the verge of a deal with better terms than the original JCPOA.

September 28, 2021 | Gabriel Noronha, Andrea Stricker, Matthew Zweig

If Biden Won’t Stand Up to Iran, Congress Should Stand Up to Biden

It should intervene using the legislation it passed in 2015 to force a vote to deny Iran sanctions relief.

June 11, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How States Can Respond If Biden Lifts Iran Sanctions

Republican governors and legislatures have some effective tools at their disposal.

December 15, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Deceptive Deja Vu

In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...