US Republican senators in Congress plan to introduce legislation to impose new sanctions against Iran over its missile program and for seeking to “destabilize” the Middle East.
“I think it is now time for the Congress to take Iran on directly in terms of what they’ve done outside the nuclear program,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
Graham, who supports an interventionist foreign policy, said he and other Republican lawmakers would introduce measures to hold Iran accountable for its actions.
“Iran is a bad actor in the greatest sense of the word when it comes to the region. To Iran, I say, if you want us to treat you differently then stop building missiles, test-firing them in defiance of UN resolution and writing ‘Death to Israel’ on the missile. That’s a mixed message,” Graham said.
The United States claims that Iran’s recent missile test violated Resolution 2231…