USA confirms the next package of sanctions against Iran

The next package of the sanctions against Iran by the USA Senate came on Monday, Reuters informs.

The Western sanctions are going on and are explained with the doubts according which Iran is working to build a nuclear bomb,

The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill in December and now the Senate and House must work out their differences in the legislation.

“This bill is another tool that will demonstrate to Iran that the United States is not backing down,” Robert Menendez, the Democratic senator who helped craft the legislation, said on the Senate floor.

“Today the U.S. Senate put Iranian leaders on notice that they must halt all uranium enrichment activities or face another round of economic sanctions from the United States,” said Republican Senator Mark Kirk, a co-author of the bill, in a statement.

The new sanctions build on penalties signed into law by President Barack Obama in December against foreign institutions trading with Iran‘s central bank.

As AFP writes the package also includes measures against anyone who provides goods that “materially contribute to Iran‘s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program or its terrorism-related activities.”

Iran continues insisting that its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes.

Yesterday the representative of the IAEA arrived in Iran to have negotiations. G5+1 negotiations on Iranian nuclear program will also take place soon in Baghdad.