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Media reports this week raise concerns that the Biden administration is moving closer to another terrible nuclear deal with Iran. Republicans on Capitol Hill strongly oppose the Biden administration pulling the US back into the disastrous JCPOA or something like it. Axios reports:

Nearly 200 House Republicans have written to President [Joe] Biden warning any nuclear deal made with Iran without Congress' approval "will meet the same fate" as the 2015 agreement by President [Barack] Obama later abandoned by President [Donald] Trump [known as the JCPOA].

Why it matters: The Biden administration has been working feverishly to secure an agreement via indirect nuclear talks in Vienna, but on Wednesday, an Iranian official publicly called for Congress to pledge that the US will stay in a potential deal.

The GOP letter — signed by most members of the party that polls say will run the House next year — bluntly rebuffs Iran's request.

…175 House Republicans, including establishment members and hardcore Trumpists alike, signed the letter — a striking statement in itself. Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Michael Waltz (R-FL) led the effort. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy signed it [as well].

33 Republican senators have taken the same position, warning in a letter this month that implementation of a nuclear deal would be "severely if not terminally hampered" if Biden did not submit to a Senate vote.

The RJC is proud to have helped build support for the House and Senate letters. We endorse the efforts of Republicans in Congress to confront the administration on this critical issue.

What you need to know: Republicans in Congress have expressed key demands for a new nuclear deal with Iran, including:

• No more sunset clauses that bet our national security on the hope that the terrorist Iranian regime will change its fundamental nature in less than a decade.

• No more Americans held hostage in Iran.

• No more cash windfalls to Iran's regime.

• No more disregarding legal obligations to compensate Americans killed or injured by Iran-sponsored terrorism.

Republicans have also insisted that the Biden Iran deal be submitted to the Senate as a treaty and that Congress have an opportunity to review the deal as provided for by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.

Now Congress needs to hear from YOU.

You can TAKE ACTION today!

Tell your Senators and Congressman:

Don’t Let Biden End Trump’s Maximum Pressure on Iran!

Further reading: Biden’s Weakness Puts Strong Iran Deal Out of Reach

• Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett landed in Bahrain on Monday evening, representing the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to the kingdom.

• Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, was played outside the royal palace in Manama, Bahrain, when Bennett was greeted there by Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who is also the kingdom’s prime minister. Read more about the Prime Minister's visit in Bahrain.

• At the international energy conference held in Cairo this week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi entered the hall and walked across to the other side of the room to greet Israeli Minister of Energy Karin Elharar.

The Washington Free Beacon reported on the scandal surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Marie Newman (D-IL). Newman bribed a Palestinian activist named Iymen Chehade not to run against her in the 2020 primary by making him her campaign’s “director of foreign policy and research.” In 2015, Chehade helped bring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh to speak at Columbia College Chicago, where he taught. Now Rep. Newman pays him $10,000 per month to give her his radical anti-Israel views. The whole story is outrageous. The Free Beacon reports:

Republican Jewish Coalition national political director Sam Markstein said Newman should resign over the scandal.

"We all know that congresswoman Newman is an extreme, far-left, anti-Israel member of Congress," Markstein told the Free Beacon. "Now we've learned that she isn't just extreme, but corrupt. Beyond her outrageous policy positions, it appears she traded her votes for political favors. Let's be clear: Any member whose policy positions are for sale should resign."