WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined his colleagues in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an update on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) investigation into the Iranian regime’s nuclear program. The Obama administration’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action provided sanctions relief in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program. Additionally, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran previously agreed to forgo the development of nuclear weapons.

However, since 2018, the IAEA has been investigating Iran’s undeclared nuclear material and activities related to a secret 2003 effort to produce atomic weapons, called the Amad Plan. Despite the IAEA’s repeated requests to access several Iranian sites, it has not been able to determine whether Tehran retains covert nuclear weapons activities, nor has it investigated all sites, personnel, and documentation related to the Amad Plan and its successor entities.

“The Iranian regime is intent on fomenting terror across the region, as evidenced by its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah’s, brutal attacks this weekend on our ally, Israel. Now more than ever, you must ensure that you hold the regime accountable for its failure to comply with obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Further, we were disappointed that the administration did not call for a formal censure of Tehran given its continued non-compliance with the IAEA,” the senators wrote.

“As Iran violates its commitments and refuses to comply with the IAEA, your business-as-usual approach to resolving the situation is tantamount to an endorsement of the Iranian regime’s activities. Further, your failure to pursue a censure of Iran, likely in conjunction with ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran that you continue to conceal from Congress, is simply unconscionable. We also note that concealing the details of such nuclear negotiations from Congress is illegal under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act,” the senators concluded.

Additional cosigners include U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rick Scott (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Susan Collins (R-ME).

Click here to read the letter.