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Sanders wants Iran sanctions bill delayed in wake of Tehran attacks
[Iran Press TV] US Senator Bernie Sanders...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... has urged the Senate to delay voting on an anti-Iran sanctions bill to protect the 2015 nuclear deal and show solidarity with Iranians in the wake of Wednesday's terror attacks in Tehran. Senators were preparing to vote for a bill that introduces more sanctions against Iran over its development of ballistic missiles for defensive purposes. Speaking on Senate floor, Sanders advised politicians against extending sanctions against Iran while the Islamic Theocratic Republicmourned the victims of two terror attacks that killed 12 people and injured dozens more in the capital Tehran earlier. "Let us be aware and cognizant that earlier today the people of Iran suffered a horrific terror attack in their capital Tehran, in which 12 people were killed and many more were maimed," the Vermont senator told his colleagues, referring to two terror attacks at Iran’s parliament and Imam Khomeini’s Mausoleum. "In a time when tensions are extremely high in that part of the world, our goal must be to find ways to bring people together to reduce tensions rather than to exacerbate this very painful and dangerous situation," Sanders said. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-08 |
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