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Washington DC - Congressman Brad Sherman issued the following statement on the announcement today that the P-5+1 group of countries and Iran have agreed to an additional extension for the talks aimed at ending Iran’s nuclear program until the end of June, 2015.
After one year of negotiations, a final accord to limit Iran’s nuclear program remains elusive. With this second extension, a disturbing pattern has emerged, one that provides the Iranian regime too much breathing room on sanctions while allowing it to continue to enrich uranium.
Washington DC - Congressmen Ted Poe and Brad Sherman, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, released the following statement laying out their position on the broad contours of an acceptable final deal on Iran’s nuclear program in advance of a hearing they have called this week.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) today released the following statement today concerning a new round of designations of companies and individuals for conducting proliferation-related activities in or with Iran. The Treasury Department announcement can be found here.
Quick Congressional Action Needed
Democrats and Republicans urge Senate leaders to tighten sanctions against the Islamic Republic
Joined by 13 House Foreign Affairs Committee Colleagues in Bipartisan Letter to President
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, on ABC's “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, about a statement appearing on the website of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, which refers in English to “the myth of the massacre of the Jews known as the Holocaust.” Zarif, asked by Stephanopoulos to explain, said no one in the Iranian government claims the Holocaust is a myth and that this was likely a translation error on Khamenei’s website.
House Passes New Iran Sanctions Bill
Major Provisions Authored by Sherman
Washington, DC - Today the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) in February 2013, passed the House of Representatives.
Campbell-Sherman Amendment ensures entities seeking financing from the Ex-Im bank are not in violation of U.S. sanctions on Iran
Washington DC - Congressman Brad Sherman today released the following statement on the passage of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) Reauthorization Bill, H.R 2072: