Reuters
Eli Lake & Josh Rogin, Bloomberg: Congress Alarmed by Iran Pact's Secret Understandings
As the White House campaign to persuade Congress about the wisdom of its Iran nuclear deal moves into its second week, important components of the complex agreement are emerging that will be shrouded from the public and in some cases from the U.S. government itself.
The existence of these secret clauses and interpretations could undermine the public's trust in the Barack Obama administration's presentations about the nuclear pact. Already Republicans and other critics of the deal have seized on the side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency as a weakness in the deal closed last week in Vienna.
The controversy began on Wednesday when Secretary of State John Kerry told House lawmakers behind closed doors that he neither possessed nor had read a copy of two secret side deals between the IAEA and Iran, according to Representative Mike Pompeo, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee who was inside the session. Congress hasn't seen those side agreements either.
WNU Editor: The U.S. Congress are not the only ones who are alarmed .... add in Israel and many of the Sunni Arab states who must exist alongside Iran .... there are many who are wondering what exactly was agreed upon, and what are those "secret understandings".