The other senator voting no, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, told The Washington Examiner that he doesn't favor any new measures against Iran or Russian Federation.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass sanctions against the regimes in Iran and Russian Federation, targeting the former for its ballistic missile program and the latter for its aggressive cyber war against the United States.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had encouraged the Senate to hold off on more sanctions, saying that he'd like more time to try and work diplomacy with Russian Federation.
We hope this bill, once passed, sends a strong warning to Iran and Russian Federation that the U.S. Congress is keeping a wary eye on the two countries and that the legislative branch expects nothing less from President Trump. "The trajectory did not change".
"What I wouldn't want to do is close the channels off", Tillerson said.
Require the president to seek congressional approval before lifting the sanctions.
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On the Iran sanctions, despite some opposition from a few officials in the Obama Administration, the plan focuses extra sanctions on Iranian support for terrorism, human rights abuses, and most importantly the work on a ballistic missile program.
Senators on both sides of the aisle have been similarly resolute.
"Iran's ballistic missile program, the regime's support for global terrorism, and its blatant and egregious human rights violations should not be ignored", the group's associate executive director for policy, Jason Isaacson, said in a statement.
Existing US sanctions imposed by the Obama administration have hurt Russia's economy, but haven't moved the Kremlin on policy, according to Saradzhyan.
"I would urge Congress to ensure any legislation that allows the president to have the flexibility to adjust sanctions to meet the needs of what is always an evolving diplomatic situation", said Tillerson at a congressional hearing. It also creates a congressional review process if the executive branch eases current sanctions. Corker said he'd agreed to give Tillerson a "short window of opportunity" to reverse the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russian Federation.
Previously, US energy sanctions had only targeted Russia's future high-tech energy projects, such as drilling for oil in the Arctic, fracking and offshore drilling. "I understand we take away some of their prerogatives, but in reality we give them a stronger hand that they can play with Russian Federation".
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