Menendez: Early Concerns About Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Are Coming Back to Haunt Us’

Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said on Tuesday night that many of the concerns he aired in 2015 about the Iran nuclear deal were “coming back to haunt us in the year 2022,” and called for a new push to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state.

Menendez said he had been “cautiously optimistic” about the Biden administration’s diplomatic efforts, but one year later, he has yet to hear what the parameters are of a “longer” and “stronger” deal which the administration said it would pursue –...