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Congress is ramping up its efforts to slap new sanctions on Iran after the country said it conducted multiple ballistic missile launches in defiance of US and international sanctions.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., met with his aides hours after the March 8 announcement to discuss the potential content and timing of legislative action. He and panel member Robert Menendez, D-N.J., have been working for the past month on multi-pronged sanctions legislation and said the latest reports out of Tehran were an incentive to kick things up a notch.
