The debate over how to respond to President Donald Trump’s sanctions regime against Iran in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is creating a fissure between the hawkish and the left wings of the Democratic Party.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs panel, Bob Menendez, D-N.J., came out in favor today of broadly maintaining the current US Iran sanctions regime while urging the Trump administration to do more to facilitate humanitarian sanctions exemptions in the fight against COVID-19.
