On Tuesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) moved to end debate on the Corker-Menendez bill seeking to give Congress some leverage in a final Iran deal. As Politico noted: McConnell told Republicans there that he intended to wrap up work on the bill so that the House can pass it next week. Despite GOP senators desires for ...

The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the US Senate should vote on an anti-Iran legislation requiring Congress to review any final nuclear deal with Iran. This is not about, as some would suggest, jamming the administration. Its about Congress having a responsible role, Senator Robert Menendez told Fox News on Sunday....

By France 24 AFP -An Indian business group said Saturday a delegation was visiting Iran to boost trade with the Islamic republic, which is under strain from Western sanctions over its alleged nuclear weapons programme. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) said the "high-powered" 50-member business delegation was ...

By The Economic Times WASHINGTON: Key lawmakers in the US Congress are looking at ways to expandeconomic sanctionson Iran, measures that have helped pushed the country's currency into free fall but have not yet pressuredTehranto abandon its nuclear program. "We are seriously looking at additional policy options, including further closing the ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) With the November 24 deadline for an Iran deal looming, theres no guarantee that the Obama administration will achieve its long-sought goal of an agreement over the Islamic Republics nuclear program. But theres at least one outcome that is a virtual certainty: Obama will face a deeply skeptical and assertive Congress. The Republican ...

(Reuters) - Senior U.S. lawmakers urged the Obama administration on Tuesday to take a tougher line in negotiations withIranover its nuclear ambitions, saying Tehran should roll back its nuclear program before economic sanctions are eased. Democratic Senators Charles Schumer, Robert Menendez and Bob Casey, as well as Republicans John McCain, Lindsey ...

(Reuters) - Fresh U.S. sanctions over Iran's disputed nuclear program being debated behind closed doors in the Senate aim to slash the country's oil sales in half within a year of the plan being signed into law, an influential senator said this week. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a meeting of the AmericanIsraelPublic ...

[caption id="attachment_39280" align="alignright" width="210"] A group of protesters against US electronic spying operations express support for protecting Edward Snowden (file photo).[/caption] US officials have warned Russia against giving refuge to American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, after reports that he has been given documents to leave ...

American whistleblower Edward Snowden should remain at Russias Sheremetyevo International Airport for a little longer as his asylum plea is still under review by Russian immigration authorities, his lawyer says. Anatoly Kucherena, who met Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday, said his client still has to stay at the transit zone, Russia Today reported. Kucherena ...

If Chuck Hagel is selected as President Obama's next defense secretary, the former Nebraska senator could find himself battling the new head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)on the fraught issue of how to deal with Iran -- that is if Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) leaves that committee to become secretary of state....

By The Guardian Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, says Britain wants to increase pressure as public dissent in Tehran could halt regime's 'mad' nuclear scheme The international community should tighten the noose on Tehran to the point of threatening the Iranian regime's survival if it does not relinquish its "mad" nuclear ambitions, the ...

By The Times of India NEW DELHI: India's sole means ofdollar payment to Iran for oilmay be blocked if a new round ofUS sanctionsis put in place. Diplomatic sources said new sanctions currently on the drafting table could be unleashed after the US presidential election in November. India currently uses Turkey's Halkbank to route dollar payments ...