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On the recordMarch 14, 2025
last Tuesday, I released a committee report. The committee report was about my investigation about the Obama-Biden administration's obstruction of FBI law enforcement efforts against Iran. My report was based in large part on whistleblower disclosure and FBI records. The FBI records show that the Obama-Biden administration blocked arrests of indicted Iranian terrorists in 2015 and 2016. Now, I know, to my constituents and my fellow Senators, that is history, but it is history that we don't want to repeat. The records show that interference was done against our own people to score political points for what ended up being the failed Iran nuclear deal. Specifically, then-Secretary of State Kerry actually stopped the FBI from doing its job, and the purpose of that interference was to appease Iran. One FBI agent emailed: We're all beside ourselves on asking the field to stand down on a layup arrest, however, as it stands right now we all have to sit back and wait until all the US and Iran negotiations resolve themselves. The Obama-Biden administration made our country less safe. We don't want history to repeat itself. So, as you might expect, none of this changed until President Trump took office in his first term. Records show international banks stopped financing projects in Iran because of the incoming Trump Presidency.…
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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