Can Congress compromise on bipartisan Iran sanctions law?
Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders say they're getting closer to an agreement on non-nuclear sanctions.
Key senators say they're getting closer to unveiling bipartisan Iran sanctions legislation in the wake of repeated ballistic missile launches.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., indicated March 6 that the panel was getting closer to an agreement after months of internal negotiations with Democrats, including ranking member Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., both of whom voted against the deal. Democrats, however, made clear that the price of their support will be a tacit acknowledgment that President Barack Obama's nuclear pact should be given a chance to work.
Whatever the committee comes up with, Cardin told Al-Monitor, "It can't be a credible argument that it violates the Iran nuclear deal."
He said, "We want to make sure that it doesn't violate the Iran nuclear agreement and we're trying to tailor it to Iran's current nefarious actions. So we're working on something. We're not quite there yet."
