U.S. officials have not presented evidence that Tehran played a direct role in the massacre in Israel, but a bipartisan group is demanding action.
Members of Congress are pushing the Biden administration to impose more sanctions on Iran over Hamas's attack on Israel. On Monday night, Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Don Bacon sent a letter to the White House, signed by more than 110 lawmakers, demanding more aggressive financial sanctions on Iran, pointing to ties between Tehran and the militants who carried out the bloody attack on Israel.
In a statement, the Treasury Department pointed to the nearly 1,000 sanctions the department had already imposed on individuals and entities funded by Iran and proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah before this month’s attack.“We will continue to take action as appropriate to counter Iran’s destabilizing activity in the region and around the world,” the statement said.
On the Senate floor Monday, top Republicans took repeated aim at the Biden administration’s approach to Tehran. The GOP has been demanding a particularly hard line: Former president Donald Trump last week falsely blamed the Hamas attack on Biden’s move to allow the $6 billion humanitarian fund, even though no money from the fund had been spent and it was limited to humanitarian purposes, with U.S. officials getting veto power over each transaction.
“Iran is already under the heaviest sanction of any country in the world, and has been for a long time,” said Duss, now executive vice president of the Center for International Policy, a D.C.-based think tank. “Piling more sanctions on top of sanctions does not seem to be working, especially when there is such an enormous political cost to removing sanctions when Iran does things we want to do.”
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