A top Senate Democrat and Republican on Monday unveiled a bill to impose extensive new economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear activities. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee released details of its 61-page bipartisan bill late on Monday and senators will consider the measures and vote on them at a hearing on Thursday....

Press TV - US senators are pushing hard against a raft of planned arms sales to Saudi Arabia after President Donald Trump said he was circumventing Congress to push them through. The White House said last month it was making an emergency provision within the countrys arms control law to enable the sale of $8.1 billion worth of arms to the kingdom ...

MNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mousavi said Sat. that the aim of Zarifs meetings with US Senators is to neutralize the impact of pressure groups such as B-team on Americas public opinion and political circles. In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi explained about the reason behind Mohammad Javad Zarifs recent meeting ...

MNA Member of Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Mohammad Hossein Naghavi Hosseini on Saturday called on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to brief Parliament on the main reason of his meeting with the US senator. He pointed to the recent meeting of Iranian foreign minister with the US senator and said,...

Press TV - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rebuked senators for passing a resolution to end Washingtons support for the Saudi war on Yemen, saying they should back Riyadh if they "truly care about Yemeni lives." In comments to the media in Washington on Friday,Pompeo claimed the vote showed that American senators do not care about the Yemeni ...

IRNA The hawkish US Senator John McCain who was a staunch opponent of Iran died at 81. The US Republican Senator, was suffering from an aggressive brain cancer for a long time. He was also a twice-defeated presidential candidate in 2000 and 2008. McCain was a staunch ally of the Zionist regime of Israel and a strong advocate of using all kinds ...

Sputnik - A group of US senators is urging the Department of the Treasury to cut off Irans financial institutions from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication US Senator Ted Cruz and 15 other senators said in a letter to Treasury Secretary on Thursday. "We urge you to take all necessary steps to ensure the Society ...

Press TV - US senators are quietly paving the way for a military aid to Israel that exceeds $3.8 billion. The number would amount to $23,000 per year for every family in Israel, according to a Friday report by Minnesota-based news website MintPress News, released amid a media blackout. American senators passed a bill titled the United States-...

Tasnim - A group of Republican senators have warned the European countries not to try to flout the sanctions that the US president is going to re-impose on Iran after pulling Washington out of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The 10 senators, all of whom opposed the JCPOA, said in a letter on Thursday ...

Sputnik - Ambassadors of EU nations in Washington confirmed their plans to meet meet with US senators to discuss Iran nuclear agreement. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Ambassadors ofEU nations inWashington confirmed Wednesday they planned tomeet withUS senators ina bid toshore upsupport fora continuednuclear dealwithIran. "Yes, correct," a diplomat ...

Washington Post - The Trump administration is unlikely to brief senators about theIran nuclear dealuntil the president has decided whether Tehran is complying with its terms, according to correspondence cited by a senior congressional aide. Senior Senate Democrats have been urging the administration to send the secretary of state, the director of ...

Tasnim A senior delegation of US senators held a meeting with the head of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Maryam Rajavi, in the Albanian capital, Tirana. The delegation, Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce,...

Sputnik - Only two years ago seven world powers, including Washington and Moscow, ratified a historic treaty guaranteeing that Iran would not develop or deploy nuclear weapons. Now, promises made by the US as part of the deal stand in danger of being circumvented by the administration of President Donald Trump. Although the president cannot,...

Press TV - A bipartisan group of US senators in Congress have introduced a bill that would impose tighter sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile tests and other non-nuclear activities. The bill was introduced on Thursday by 14 Democratic and Republican senators, including senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ...

Press TV- Republican US senators have introduced legislation to impose fresh sanctions on Irans aviation sector, accusing Tehran of using civilian aircraft to support terrorism. Senators Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, Ben Sasse and David Perdue introduced the Iran Terror-Free Skies Act, legislation that would counter Irans use of commercial aircraft ...

Senator for the US state of Virginia Richard Hayden Black talks to Press TV about ties between Washington and Daesh, further exposing the true axis of evil in the Middle East. The American official said in a Tuesday interview that the war in Syria would have been over by now if the US had put an end to its intervention when Russia entered the ...

ILNA: Eight American senators, afraid of Iran's successful economic diplomacy, have called on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to keep Tehran on the body's blacklist. The senators called for such a thing in a letter sent on June 30, 2016, to the US Department of Treasury. The FATF issued a statement on June 24, 2016, suspending Iran in the ...

Just weeks after the Iran nuclear deal took effect, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is taking fresh aim at Tehran with stepped-up sanctions to punish the Islamic Republic for aggressive non-nuclear activities. Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and at least one other senator are crafting new measures to address everything from Irans recent ballistic ...

A number of Republican senators have called on US President Barack Obama not to lift sanctions against Iran. In a letter released on Thursday, 35 senators wrote, It is a mistake to treat Irans ballistic missile program as separate from Irans nuclear program. "We urge your administration to not lift sanctions on Iran that would provide billions ...

[caption id="attachment_153805" align="alignright" width="186"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva March 2, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/DENIS BALIBOUSE[/caption] On Mach 9, Irans U.N. mission circulated the following press release detailing Foreign Minister ...