Congress prepares second front on Iran sanctions
Lawmakers are considering new terrorism-related Iran sanctions targeting Hezbollah after ceding to the Obama administration's request to back off on the nuclear issue.
House lawmakers are working on new terrorism-related Iran sanctions after ceding to the Barack Obama administration's request to back off the nuclear issue, Al-Monitor has learned.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is mulling ways to target Hezbollah and its Iranian patron in order to disrupt the group's support for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. The push would allow lawmakers to demonstrate their independence from the White House on Iran while also addressing the Syrian crisis as the conflict enters its fourth year.
