The chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is blasting the Obama administration for its visa waiver program that accommodates Iran. In a statement released by his office today, Chairman Ed Royce reacts “to the Obama administration’s implementation of the recently passed Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2016,” as his office described.
“Today the United States starts implementing changes under to the Visa Waiver Program to better protect Americans. But instead of following the new bipartisan law that Congress passed in December, the Obama administration has gone out of its way to accommodate the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Royce’s statement today reads.
“The administration has again shown that when Iran complains, it backs down. Today’s announcement shows the disturbing lengths the administration will go to bypass Congress in pursuit of its own agenda – in this case, saving a deeply flawed Iran deal.”
In a background note, Royce’s office explains:
