The anti-Iranian Democratic Senator resigns before being fired!
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, according to Reuters, Bob Menendez, a US Democratic senator who is known for taking anti-Iranian positions, was found guilty of accepting bribes, including gold bullion, from foreign governments. , will resign from his position as a senator.
The Democratic senator from New Jersey has repeatedly resisted calls to resign, including from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. However, the news of his resignation was published a day after the Senate Disciplinary Committee began the process of reviewing his dismissal.
The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was found guilty on 16 counts in the case of accepting bribes in exchange for assistance to the governments of Qatar and Egypt, and after the trial on October 29, He will probably face a long prison sentence.
The jurors were told that FBI agents took more than $480,000 in cash, which was inside envelopes and coat pockets, from Menendez’s home. have discovered Also, agents have seized gold bars worth more than 100,000 dollars from his property. The 70-year-old American senator denied the accusations and claimed that he never “violated his oath”!
Menendez wrote in his resignation letter to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy that he was proud of his achievements in the Senate (!) and that he would file an appeal, but due to his unwillingness He resigns to enter the Senate in this long process. Menendez first became a member of the House of Representatives in 1993 and entered the Senate in 2006.
Menendez is always known to adopt anti-Iranian positions. In the case of Rob Mali, the US special representative for Iran affairs, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee headed by Menendez asked Mali to answer the committee’s questions about the ongoing negotiations in Vienna.
He also expressed dissatisfaction with the increase in Iranian oil imports from China. Menendez is one of the Democrats who opposed the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA) between Iran and the five nuclear powers.
