{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/senators-call-for-next-step-in-holding-iran-accountable", "Senators Call For Next Step In Holding Iran Accountable", "2017-10-27", "2017", "2017-10", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Jim Risch", "R000584", "www.risch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Urge Ambassador Haley To Push For Military Site Inspections & Stronger Inspection Reporting Requirements\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) was joined by Senators John Boozman (R-AR), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Cory Gardner (R-CO), James Inhofe (R-OK), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Luther Strange (R-AL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in sending a letter to United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley requesting she call on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect Iranian military facilities and strengthen reporting and verification requirements of Iran\u2019s compliance with the Iran Nuclear Deal.\u00a0\r\n\u201cWhen unveiling the JCPOA, President Obama promised that, \u2018inspectors will also be able to access any suspicious location. Put simply, the organization responsible for the inspections, the IAEA, will have access where necessary, when necessary.\u2019 He stressed that Iran\u2019s nuclear program \u2018faces strict limitations and is subject to the most intrusive inspection and verification program ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program.\u2019 In practice, it appears that this is not the case,\u201d wrote the senators. Just this summer, Iranian officials stated Iran\u2019s military sites are \u201coff limits\u201d and they \u201cwill never allow such visits.\u201d\u00a0\r\nIn the letter, the senators ask Ambassador Haley to work with her colleagues at the United Nations to address reporting shortcomings and vague inspection boundaries. This includes the lack of distinction between military and non-military sites in the Iran Nuclear Deal, which contributed to President Trump\u2019s decision to not recertify the agreement. This ambiguity has prevented the IAEA from conducting comprehensive inspections. As noted in an Institute for Science and International Security review of the most recent IAEA report on Iran, \u201cthis report provides so little information\u201d inspectors are forced to rely on intelligence reports and other information to determine if sites they have not visited are being used for activities violating the Iran Deal.\u00a0\r\nView the full text of the letter here.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/senators-call-for-next-step-in-holding-iran-accountable"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0389401577413082, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}