TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior US senator said that members of the Congress “have different views” over passing a legislation to extend anti-Iran sanctions.

Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, acknowledged that lawmakers have not yet unified behind a proposal against Iran that would attract enough votes to pass and become law.

"Members have different views," he said at a roundtable discussion with reporters, Reuters reported.

The sanctions law, known as the Iran Sanctions Act, includes provisions targeting Iran’s nuclear program, as well as ballistic missiles and the country's energy sector.

Earlier, Senator Bob Corker, the committee's Republican chairman, said he is working on legislation with Cardin that he hopes will attract strong bipartisan support. That measure has not yet been unveiled and aides said they had no more information about when it might be introduced.

This is while that the Obama administration has warned Congress that it would oppose new anti-Iran sanctions that interfere with a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers.

Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached a conclusion over the text of a comprehensive 159-page deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.

The deal terminated all nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran after coming into force.

By Tasnim News Agency