Press TV - US lawmakers have warned the administration of President Donald Trump not to attack Iran by using a war authorization legislation passed following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Members of a foreign affairs subcommittee in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday pressed Brian Hook, the US special representative on Iran, to ...

Reuters - The chairmen of three congressional committees on national security on Thursday pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain whether a Trump administration arms control report was politicized and slanted assessments about Iran. The chairmen of Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence committees in the U.S. House of Representatives ...

Press TV- US lawmakers have put forward a bill at the House of Representatives, seeking to tighten the term of a 2015 multinational nuclear deal with Iran, despite international warnings for Washingtonto stop attempts to underminethe accord. The so-called Iran Freedom Policy and Sanctions Act was introduced by Republican representative Peter Roskam ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday released to the media its reply letter to a US congress request for visiting Iran to verify implementation of the nuclear deal and monitor the free trend of elections among other goals, a strong and crushing response that could receive much applause from across the political spectrum at home. Three ...

WASHINGTON U.S. senators questioned on Tuesday whether India's development of a port in southern Iran for trade access risked violating international sanctions, and a State Department official assured them the administration would closely examine the project. "We have been very clear with the Indians (about) continuing restrictions on activities ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Irans Army Ground Force unveils new achievements Iranian Army Ground Force on Wednesday unveiled its latest achievements including a new air defense system, an optimized version of Chieftain Tanks, and an NRBC vehicle named Shahram.   Iran, Italy ink 12 trade contracts Executive ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Three members of the US congress have asked Iranian officials to allow them to inspect Irans nuclear sites ahead of a speech by the governor of the Central Bank of Iran in Washington this Friday. Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), and Frank LoBiondo (R., N.J.) have been petitioning Iranian officials to grant them ...

A senior Iranian lawmaker slams a request by three US lawmakers for visas to Iran to monitor the upcoming elections, saying polls in the Islamic Republic need no international monitoring. Elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran need no international oversight and in case of any need (to monitoring), that (monitor) will definitely not be the United ...

Republican lawmakers in the US state of Wisconsin have introduced a bill that would prohibit business with Iran. They say the measure would help blunt President Barack Obama's nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic. The bill proposed by Rep. Dale Kooyenga and Sen. Leah Vukmir would require the state to sell within a yearany holdings in the ...

Seventy-five former lawmakers are urging Congress to back the Iran deal ahead of next month's vote, calling it the "most viable means" to block Tehran from getting a nuclear weapon. "We believe that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that the United States and our P5+1 partners negotiated with the government of Iran is the most viable means ...

As talks on an Iran nuclear deal enter the final stretch, U.S. lawmakers are sharpening warnings against a "weak" agreement and laying down red lines that, if crossed, could prompt Congress to trip up a carefully crafted international pact. Several influential lawmakers said they do not want to see any sanctions lifted before Tehran begins complying ...

[caption id="attachment_145857" align="alignright" width="236"] US President Barack Obama[/caption] A bipartisan group of 360 US lawmakers has signed a letter warning President Barack Obama that any sanctions relief on Iran as part of an emerging nuclear deal would require new legislation from Congress. The letter, signed by a majority of Republicans ...

[caption id="attachment_109097" align="alignright" width="209"] Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing more pressure in the United States as one quarter of Democratic lawmakers plan to boycott his speech at Congress on Tuesday, media report said. At least 55 Democrats,...

[caption id="attachment_148058" align="alignright" width="143"] The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was criticized for the stroll he took with Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Jan. 14. Credit Laurent Gillieron/European Pressphoto Agency[/caption] WASHINGTON When the House of Representativesopens hearings on Tuesdayabout ...

Numerous reports indicate that a major reason the P5+1 and Iran failed to reach a nuclear agreement was because Tehran doubted that the White House could persuade Congress to lift the sanctions against it. Purportedly, U.S. negotiators offered to suspend the sanctions through presidential waivers, which Iran rejected because there would be no guarantee ...

Republican Senate The action between the White House and a Republican Senate could make Moshe Yaalons feud with the Obama administration look like Tiddly-Winks. The warning by Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid that there is a crisis between Israel and the Americans may well be true. Hes alarmed at the refusalof the top tier of the Obama foreign ...

Negotiations with Iran over the future of its nuclear program have not even concluded yet some members of Congress are preparing tomanufacture a political crisis over a deal.Their beef? President Barack Obama may initially bypass Congress and suspend sanctions imposed on Iran to make a deal possible and only later ask lawmakers to end them permanently ...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of U.S. lawmakers pressed Secretary of State John Kerry to lean harder onIranin talks over its nuclear program in a letter released on Thursday afterIsraelwarned Washington not to go easy on Tehran. Three hundred and fifty-four members - four-fifths - of the U.S. House of Representatives signed the letter sent to Kerry on Wednesday ...

[caption id="attachment_107851" align="alignright" width="206"] A file photo of the US Congress[/caption] A number of high-ranking US lawmakers say President Barack Obama is not updating them on the status of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. Some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has authority over matters of ...

[caption id="attachment_107290" align="alignright" width="260"] US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference in Cairo, June 22, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski)[/caption] US Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers July 17that passing new triggered sanctions on Iran might help unlock a nuclear deal, a complete ...