US sanction bill against Iran

The United States Senate approved a sanction bill against Iran on Thursday, barring companies selling fuel to Iran from obtaining U.S. government bids.

Under the bill, which was passed, foreign company that sells more than one million dollars’ worth of fuel to Iran would not be able to bid for contracts offered by the U.S. government.

Before this bill U.S senate has passed another bill on Wednesday, which the U.S. state and local governments would obtain legal authorities to divest investments from those companies investing more than 20 million dollars in Iran’s petroleum or natural gas operations.

However All of these sanction bills have to be signed by President Barack Obama before becoming law in United States.

All of these sanction bills are based on that, The United States, its European alliance and Israel claim that Iran’s nuclear program is aimed at developing nuclear weapons, and the UN Security Council also asked Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities.

However, Iran insists that its nuclear plan is only for peaceful purposes, and continues its uranium enrichment activity despite pressure from the western countries and relevant resolutions and sanctions of the United Nations.

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