Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Debating Sanctions

June 18th, 2008 by Sarah

Laura Rozen at War and Piece reports that the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to consider legislation today to impose additional sanctions on Iran, but the effort appears snarled by language in the bill that would block a proposed nuclear deal with Russia. Senators Biden and Lugar said the language “would likely make it impossible to obtain Russian agreement on further measures and would thus preclude the possibility of broad cooperation on additional U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran.”


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