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Post by Daniel on Nov 17, 2016 8:09:51 GMT -5
Iran angry after U.S. House extends sanctions
Elad Benari, 17/11/16
Senior Iranian officials reacted angrily on Wednesday, after the American House of Representatives passed a bill renewing the sanctions on the Islamic Republic for 10 years.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted by an overwhelming majority of 419 to one for a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), a law first adopted in 1996 to punish investments in Iran's energy industry and deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The bill must be also be passed by the Senate before being signed into law by President Barack Obama.
In response, Iranian officials warned that they would take action if the U.S. renews the sanctions, saying that doing so goes against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement signed last year between Iran and six world powers.
“If you extend the sanctions, this will mean kicking the JCPOA away and we will confront it through implementing powerful technical packages,” said the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, according to PressTV.
He did not elaborate on what he meant by those comments.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220424
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Post by sevenofnine on Nov 17, 2016 20:11:22 GMT -5
OH somebody is not happyyy
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Post by oliverwithatwist on Nov 18, 2016 7:25:23 GMT -5
Will Barry sign it?
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Post by Daniel on Nov 18, 2016 8:06:32 GMT -5
House votes to bar aircraft sales to Iran
Elad Benari, 18/11/16
The Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted to bar the sale of commercial aircraft to Iran, The Associated Press reported.
By 243-174 vote, lawmakers passed legislation that would prohibit the Treasury Department from issuing the licenses U.S. banks would need to complete the transactions.
The House bill seeks to counter the Treasury’s decision in September to grant aviation giants Boeing and Airbus permission to sell the passenger planes to Tehran.
The bill must now clear the Senate, where the measure would face stiff opposition from Democrats. In any case, President Barack Obama will most likely veto the bill if it reached his desk.
Iran first announced in September of 2015 that it planned to buy Airbus and Boeing passenger planes once the nuclear accord with world powers is implemented. The deal was implemented and sanctions on Iran lifted at the beginning of 2016.
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Post by sevenofnine on Nov 18, 2016 18:38:22 GMT -5
HA HA
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Post by Daniel on Nov 23, 2016 18:40:08 GMT -5
Iran warns of retaliation if U.S. breaches nuclear deal
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
November 23, 2016
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Extending U.S. sanctions on Iran for 10 years would breach the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said on Wednesday, warning that Tehran would retaliate if the sanctions are approved.
The U.S. House of Representatives re-authorized last week the Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, for 10 years. The law was first adopted in 1996 to punish investments in Iran's energy industry and deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The Iran measure will expire at the end of 2016 if it is not renewed. The House bill must still be passed by the Senate and signed by President Barack Obama to become law.
Iran and world powers concluded the nuclear agreement, also known as JCPOA, last year. It imposed curbs on Iran's nuclear program in return for easing sanctions that have badly hurt its economy.
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ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-warns-retaliation-u-breaches-nuclear-deal-khamenei-100458641.html
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Post by Daniel on Nov 23, 2016 19:10:17 GMT -5
Republicans urge Obama: Let Trump determine Iran policy
Arutz Sheva Staff, 23/11/16
House Republican leaders on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to refrain from boosting business ties between the United States and Iran before leaving office, The Hill reports.
Speaker Paul Ryan (WI), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ed Royce (CA) sent Obama a letter in which they urged the administration to “take no further actions designed to bolster international investment in Iran.”
The Republican leaders said Obama owes President-elect Donald Trump, who opposes the Iran nuclear deal, “the opportunity to assess United States policy toward Iran without your administration imposing or implementing additional measures that could complicate the incoming administration’s ability to develop its policy.”
“We urge you not to take any action that would weaken United States or multilateral sanctions or other restrictions against Iran in this post-election period,” the leaders wrote, according to The Hill.
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Post by Daniel on Dec 3, 2016 2:11:31 GMT -5
Senate unanimously votes to extend Iran sanctions
Gary Willig, 02/12/16
The US Senate unanimously voted to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) by ten years on Thursday.
The bill was passed by a vote of 99-0. It had previously been approved by a vote of 419-1 in the House of Representatives. President Barack Obama still has to sign the bill for it to become law.
The Obama Administration had hinted that it would have preferred not to sign the bill into law. It was passed with a veto-proof majority, however.
The ISA, which was first passed in 1996, enacts sanctions on companies that invest in Iran's energy sector in order to deter the Islamic Republic's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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