{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young_presses-biden-administration-on-negotiations-with-iran/", "VIDEO: Young  Presses Biden Administration on Negotiations with Iran", "2022-05-25", "2022", "2022-05", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "**Click here or the image above to watch**\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) pressed the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, about Iran hiding its prior nuclear work from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\n\nYoung said Iran\u2019s evasion of the IAEA makes the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action\u2019s (JCPOA) existing inspection mechanisms insufficient and asked why the Biden administration has been trying to re-enter the ineffective JCPOA.\n\nEarlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran \u201csecured access to secret United Nations atomic agency reports almost two decades ago and circulated the documents among top officials who prepared cover stories and falsified a record to conceal suspected past work on nuclear weapons.\u201d\n\nDuring the hearing, Young had the following interaction with Malley:\n\n\u201cThe Wall Street Journal today released a piece, \u2018Iran Used Secret U.N. Records to Evade Nuclear Probes.\u2019 So we\u2019re learning more about the extent of noncompliance by the leaders in Iran. The Journal says that Iran\u2019s been stonewalling IAEA investigations. Iran wants the IAEA\u2019s, the nuclear inspector, continuing investigations of their past nuclear weapons work closed before a deal is restored. Yet the agency has blessedly pushed back, indicating that they can\u2019t close these inspections because they don\u2019t have enough clarity on Iran\u2019s past nuclear work. All this is incredibly troubling, as IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the European Parliament earlier this month, \u2018Iran has not been forthcoming in the kind of information we need from them.\u2019 So, Mr. Malley, were you aware of these efforts by Iran to hide its prior nuclear work from the IAEA?\u201d asked Senator Young.\n\n\u201cSenator, did Iran lie? Of course. Did did Iran have a covert nuclear program? Absolutely. That\u2019s the reason why prior administrations imposed such crushing sanctions on Iran,\u201d responded Malley.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:29:07Z"]], "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.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young_presses-biden-administration-on-negotiations-with-iran/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.025966066867113, "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"}