Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to examine the brutal and destabilizing role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.  The hearing is entitled “Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps: Fueling Conflict in the Middle East.”
 
Chairman Royce on the hearing: “The Obama administration gambled that a nuclear deal would lead to a responsible Iran.  Instead, the regime is working harder than ever to export violence and terror to Syria, Yemen and beyond.  Iran’s backing of Syria’s Assad regime has fed the rise of ISIS.  Soon, sanctions will be lifted and the Iranian regime will hit a jackpot in the tens of billions.  This money isn’t going to ordinary Iranians; it will be used to strengthen Iran’s murderous Revolutionary Guard Corps.  This hearing will examine the threats a well-funded Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pose to the already volatile Middle East.”
 
What:
Hearing: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Fueling Middle East Turmoil
 
When:
10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 2
 
Where:
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
 
Witnesses:
Mr. Ali Alfoneh
Senior Fellow
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
 
Mr. Scott Modell
Managing Director
The Rapidan Group
 
Mr. Daniel Benjamin
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Dartmouth College
(Former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State)
 
***See foreignaffairs.house.gov for updates.
 
***Coverage note:  All Foreign Affairs Committee proceedings are webcast live at foreignaffairs.house.gov/live-video-feed.

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