Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and other Democratic senators held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jahad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a report by Mollie Hemingway in The Federalist.

Zarif is a longtime government official in Iran and has previously served as Chief Nuclear Negotiator. Despite being educated in the U.S., he has been accused of chanting ‘Death to America.’ Earlier this year, the United States denied Zarif a visa that would have enabled him to attend a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York City.

Senator Murphy is a regular speaker at the National Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with alleged links to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

To read Mollie Hemingway’s full report, click here.