The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has told Secretary of State John Kerry point-blank that “you’ve been fleeced” by the Iranians in the recently completed nuclear agreement.

Kerry was greeted with applause from anti-war demonstrators as a handful of members from CodePink rose in the hearing room. But the mood turned critical immediately as Sen. Bob Corker, who heads the panel, gaveled the hearing to order.

Corker told Kerry he was “fairly depressed” after listening to the secretary answer lawmakers’ questions Wednesday about the agreement in a classified briefing.

Kerry is testifying with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about the deal Congress is expected to vote on in September.

Associated Press