WASHINGTON January 8, 2016 (Sputnik), Leandra Bernstein —The new Iranian sanctions bill approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday will prevent the United States from upholding its commitment to provide sanctions relief under the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal, top committee Democrat Eliot Engel told Sputnik.
“It would, of course it would,” Engel told Sputnik on Thursday when asked if the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act would violate the US terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Engel added that while he supports new sanctions on Iran for recent ballistic missile tests, the current bill is “not a serious effort” to accomplish that.
During the Thursday debate on the bill, Congressman Ted Deutch warned against “preventing implementation of the JCPOA” by creating an onerous certification process.
Congressman Brad Sherman noted the congressional effort that would scuttle the nuclear deal was timed immediately after Iran shipped out the majority of its enriched uranium for reprocessing in Russia.
“I do not think this is a spectacularly well-timed bait and switch program with the uranium,” Sherman said of the new sanctions bill.
The new sanctions bill will almost certainly be vetoed by President Barack Obama and may face opposition in the Senate. According to Secretary of State John Kerry, the United States will be moving ahead with Iranian sanctions relief in the near future.
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