{"id":265231,"date":"2016-09-02T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-calls-for-us-congress-to-renew-iran-sanctions-act\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T14:36:41","slug":"clinton-calls-for-us-congress-to-renew-iran-sanctions-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-calls-for-us-congress-to-renew-iran-sanctions-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton calls for US Congress to renew Iran Sanctions Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The campaign of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called for Congress to renew the expiring Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) without adding additional measures to it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Lehrich, a spokesman for Clinton, told <em>The Hill <\/em>newspaper in a statement on Thursday that \u201cHillary Clinton supports a clean reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act and believes Congress should get this done in short order when they return from recess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cShe has always made clear that while the historic deal passed last year represents a crucial step forward toward preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, we must proceed with a &#8216;distrust and verify&#8217; approach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaintaining the infrastructure to immediately snap back sanctions if Iran violates the terms of the deal is essential. Congress should put partisanship aside and send the president a clean ISA reauthorization bill for his signature,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton and some Democrats are seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/02\/482848\/Clinton-Congress-Iran-Sanctions-Act\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called for Congress to renew the expiring Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) without adding additional measures to it. Jesse Lehrich, a spokesman for Clinton, told The Hill newspaper in a statement on Thursday that \u201cHillary Clinton supports a clean reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265231","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=265231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}