28 Mar 2024
Thursday 3 January 2013 - 16:17
Story Code : 16359

Obama signs $633b defense bill, tightening Iran penalties

Key Speakers At The Clinton Global Initiative Annual MeetingDefense bill, which Obama had threatenedto veto, also bolsters security at diplomatic missions.
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a $633 billion defense bill for next year that tightens penalties on Iran and bolsters security at diplomatic missions worldwide after the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Obama had threatened to veto the measure because of a number of concerns, including limits on his authority to transfer terrorist suspects from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for one year.

But Obama said that although he continued to oppose certain sections of the bill, "the need to renew critical defense authorities and funding was too great to ignore."

The bill includes cuts in defense spending that the president and congressional Republicans agreed to in August 2011, along with the end of the war in Iraq and the drawdown of American forces in Afghanistan.

By Haaretz

 

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