WASHINGTON: US Senators working to tighten an international accord on Iran?s nuclear program said Thursday no new bill was imminent. Senators said they were continuing talks with the White House and their European partners, but that a widely expected mid-January deadline was not going to be met. In October, President Donald Trump refused to certify that Iran was respecting its commitments on the 2015 nuclear agreement, but did not re-impose sanctions or abandon the deal itself. Instead, he said it contained ?many serious flaws? and left any decision to walk out of the accord up to Congress. Since then, Congress has been locked in discussions on how to toughen the deal, under which Iran agreed to freeze its nuclear program in return for a lifting of punishing sanctions. The new text being thrashed out by Congress seeks to unilaterally recalibrate the threshold at which US sanctions could be restored against Iran, something that has raised concerns with European co-sponsors of the accord. ?It?s moving along. Our European allies have been brought along in a very good way both by us but also the White House, (which) has done a very good job,? said Republican Bob Corker, head of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
01-05-2018, 09:27 AM
?No US bill on tightening Iran N-deal imminent?
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