NCRI – New legislative measures have been proposed by US lawmakers meant to impose more extensive sanctions against the clerical regime, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
According to the paper and other news agencies, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Howard Berman of California, the panel’s top Democrat, have introduced a bill that would impose penalties on human rights abusers in the Iranian regime, including freezing their U.S.-based assets, denying them visas and prohibiting financial or business transactions with any U.S. entity.
The round of sanctions also would target foreign companies that do energy business with the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The bill also would restrict the travel of the Iranian regime’s diplomats to a 25-mile radius of New York and Washington.
“Iran’s effort to get nuclear weapons capability is the most serious security challenge we face,” Berman said in an interview Sunday. He specifically mentioned the proliferation of barter arrangements between Iran and others, saying the new proposed sanctions would “constrain the circumvention.”
