{"id":255796,"date":"2016-07-14T00:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-house-gopers-ban-heavy-water-purchase-from-iran\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T00:47:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:47:42","slug":"us-house-gopers-ban-heavy-water-purchase-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-house-gopers-ban-heavy-water-purchase-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US House GOPers ban heavy water purchase from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"91\">\n<p><strong>The Republican-weighted US House of Representatives has passed a legislation to block purchase of heavy water from Iran, despite earlier warnings by President Barack Obama to veto such a measure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;No 2H2O from Iran Act&#8221; was supported exclusively by the GOPers and finally passed by 249-176 on Wednesday, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of the Republican attempts to undermine efforts by the Obama administration to negotiate a nuclear deal with Tehran along with five other world powers, Britain, Russia, China, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160714\/8faccb8f-b015-47f9-a9c6-f37c7fc30cc9.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed that the measure would not violate the deal, dubbed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).<\/p>\n<p>The measure was introduced by Republicans Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio as well as Democrats, Robert Menendez and Joe Manchin.<\/p>\n<p>Its targets include Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile development as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/14\/475088\/iran-jcpoa-nuclear-house-of-representatives-republicans-us\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican-weighted US House of Representatives has passed a legislation to block purchase of heavy water from Iran, despite earlier warnings by President Barack Obama to veto such a measure. The &#8220;No 2H2O from Iran Act&#8221; was supported exclusively by the GOPers and finally passed by 249-176 on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The move is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255796","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=255796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}