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US Foreign Affairs chair says he has ‘real concerns’ over nuke talks

25 February 2015, 5:12 pm Edit

In his opening statement ahead of John Kerry’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chairman Ed Royce (R-California) says that his committee “has real concerns over the direction of talks.”

He says it seems that increasingly the talks are “less about dismantlement more about the permanence of Iran’s nuclear program.”

Royce also says the administration was “tragically slow to react” as the Islamic State built up its power and grabbed swathes of land.