{"id":232219,"date":"2016-03-17T18:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-senators-to-introduce-new-iran-sanctions-bill\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T22:10:36","slug":"gop-senators-to-introduce-new-iran-sanctions-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/gop-senators-to-introduce-new-iran-sanctions-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators to introduce new Iran sanctions bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"106\">\n<p><strong>A group of US Republican senators is planning to introduce legislation to impose new sanctions against Iran over what legislators have described as Tehran\u2019s support for terrorism and human rights violations, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bill will be introduced on Thursday by Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, and Senators Mark Kirk, Kelly Ayotte, Dan Coats and Cory Gardner as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, <em>The Hill <\/em>newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nine other Republican senators have also signed on the new bill, dubbed the \u201cIran Terrorism and Human Rights Sanctions Act of 2016,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill&#8217;s co-sponsors include Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, and Senators John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Pat Roberts, Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton, Jerry Moran, Johnny Isakson and Lisa Murkowski.<\/p>\n<p>The senators have accused Iran of supporting terrorism in the Middle East and committing human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reject our current&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/17\/456331\/GOP-senators-sanctions-Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of US Republican senators is planning to introduce legislation to impose new sanctions against Iran over what legislators have described as Tehran\u2019s support for terrorism and human rights violations, a report says. The bill will be introduced on Thursday by Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, and Senators Mark Kirk, Kelly Ayotte, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}