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May 17, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-05-16-voa61.cfm

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Intensify Economic Pressure on Iran, Syria

[VOA News] Dan Robinson - Tom Lantos, who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asserts the divestment measure will also encourage moderate elements in Iran opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policies. "This will strengthen their hand, it will weaken the Iranian economy, and it will contribute we hope peacefully to undermining this regime which has been so negative, both in terms of the freedom of the Iranian people internally and Iran's global position." Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced a bill last week to strengthen existing U.S. sanctions against Syria and support what it calls a transition to a democratically elected government in Syria.

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