‘Iran Week’

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"....  Dodd said Sept. 29 that his proposal would give President Obama “the ability to impose tough, targeted sanctions if Iran does not respond to our final diplomatic effort in the coming weeks.”

The measure would allow for the expansion of current sanctions against Iran, incorporate two pending bills aimed at importation of refined petroleum and recommend targeted sanctions against Iranian officials.

It will include provisions from a bill (S 908) introduced by Bayh, targeting companies that aid the importation of gasoline to Iran and another (S 1065), by Sam Brownback , R-Kan., that would support efforts to divest from those companies....

Graham agreed with Casey and Bayh, adding he would like to have a session in the Senate, “maybe a couple, three days, ‘Iran Week,’ where we pass Evan Bayh ’s sanction proposal regarding refined petroleum, where the president would have tools to sanction companies that provide refined petroleum to Iran. ...

“I would like to see the Congress in a defined period of time the next couple of weeks pass a series of measures that would empower the president and our country to be tough and to put some actions behind words, he said. “So let’s have ‘Iran Week’ in the Senate and get something done. I totally agree with him."