Conferees launch Iran sanctions sessions
Conferees from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate met to shape a final Iran sanctions bill.\n
Conferees from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate met to shape a final Iran sanctions bill.\n
Seventeen U.S. Congress members sent a letter to Harvard University urging divestment from Iran\’s energy sector.\n
An Iranian nuclear scientist has requested political asylum in Israel, an Israeli lawmaker said.\n
Two major international accounting firms cut ties with Iran.
Activists for the Zionist Organization of America lobbied Congress to consider military action against Iran.
More than three quarters of the members in both Houses of Congress wrote to President Obama urging him to unilaterally sanction Iran.\n\nThe U.S. House of Representatives letter, initiated by Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.) garnered 363 signatories; the Senate letter, initiated by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), garnered 76.
Iran’s president recently announced that his nation has started to process highly enriched uranium and is now a “nuclear state.” This is a chilling\nreminder of the threat Iran poses.
Iran announced that it will join the \”world nuclear club\” within a month and will be capable of deterring possible attacks on the country, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
China will join efforts to sanction Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned a nuclear security summit which opens in Washington on Monday as humiliating to humanity.