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Will Iran review bill survive Senate?

A look at the Middle East issues Congress will be addressing the week of April 27.
U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) speaks to reports at the U.S. Capitol in Washington April 21, 2015. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan - RTX19PE3

WASHINGTON — The Senate takes up Iran legislation this coming week, offering a crucial test of whether a bipartisan compromise can survive the chamber's toughest Iran hawks.

Legislation empowering Congress to review the bill cleared the Foreign Relations panel unanimously on April 14 after Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., reached a deal with Democrats that the White House said it could live with. Hawkish lawmakers — including freshman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and presidential candidate Marco Rubio, R-Fla. — have promised to push amendments requiring Iran to recognize Israel's right to exist and to abandon terrorism and its missile-defense program, with the full backing of conservative luminaries such as William Kristol.

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