[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Senate passed a 10-year extension of existing sanctions against Iran on Thursday, sending the measure to the White House for President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back ...
to sign into law and delaying any potentially tougher actions until next year.As the voting continued, senators were backing the renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act by 89-0. It passed the House of Representatives nearly unanimously in November, and congressional aides said they expected Obama would sign it when it reached his desk.
| Update from Ynet at 9:20 a.m. ET: |
Iran says extension of sanctions act by US Congress violates nuclear deal
| ...rendering them null and void? |
Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the US Senate's vote to extend sanctions against the Islamic Theocratic Republic for 10 years violated a historic nuclear deal reached between the country and six major powers in 2015.
"The extension of sanctions by the US congress is a violation of the deal. We will report it to Iran's committee, assigned for monitoring the implementation of the deal," according to a statement by Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Ghasemi read on television.
| President Trump will be able to work with this, so long as the Iranians don't do something stupid like drop a hastily assembled nuclear device --- or a dirty bomb -- on Jeddah, followed by one on Jerusalem... or vice versa. |
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