Senate Bill Would Maintain Iran Sanctions After Potential UN Sunset This Year
A Senate bill with bipartisan support could continue U.S. sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone program after the potential October sunset of U.N. Security Council restrictions against that country. The Making Iran Sanctions Stick in Lieu of Expiration of Sanctions Act, introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., would ensure that Iran’s missile development activities remain subject to “appropriate U.S. sanctions in the likely event that Russia and China block an extension of UN restrictions in the Security Council” later this year.
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“It is absolutely vital that our sanctions policy” continues to target Iran’s missile program “in the event UN restrictions come to an end in October,” Menendez said. Hagerty said the bill would impose “far-reaching sanctions against any foreign individual, entity, or government that is engaged in activities related to Iran’s missiles, drones, and other destabilizing weapons.”