WASHINGTON - us legislators unveiled Monday legislation to strengthen the economic sanctions against the Iran, seeks to drag in Tehran for talks on its suspect nuclear programs and punish the violators of human rights.
"Us policy toward the Iran offered a lot of bark, but not enough biting," President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House Ileana Ros - Lehtinen, a Republican, said in a statement on the Bill.
The new measure, backed by key Republicans and Democrats, aims to strengthen punitive measures against entities that invest in the sector of the energy of the Iran or provide the essence of the Islamic Republic.
And it increases sanctions on the highest Iranian officials - to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to military commanders and paramilitary forces - found of violating human rights.
These officials would travel bans in the United States, asset freezes and denial of access to the markets of capital, under the legislation, we a companion version has also tabled in the Senate.
Iranian diplomats allowed into the United States would be limited to a radius of 25 miles (40 km) of Washington and the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
"We must continually looking to the future and examine additional ways to pressure from the Iran, and this is exactly what this new legislation is intended to do,"said representative Howard Berman, Democrat top of Ros-Lehtinen Committee."."
We the President Barack Obama signed provisions of radical sanctions into law in July 2010, but legislators have criticized the administration for the use of authority of waiver of the measure to avoid in large part to impose sanctions.
Just two companies - an Iranian firm owned by the State and a company belonging to the State of Belarus - have been punished under this Bill, according to Ros-Lehtinen.
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