House Republicans and Democrats Team Up To Sanction Iranian Supreme Leader and Other Top Regime Figures

Leaders from both parties call for the US to adopt a tougher stance against the regime in protest of violent crackdown Protesters forcefully trample on an image of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi/Getty Images

According to congressional sources speaking to the media, House Republicans and Democrats have teamed up to sanction Iran’s supreme leader and other high-ranking regime figures for human right violations. Washington Free Beacon.

The Mahsa Amini Act is a piece legislation that foreign policy leaders of both parties have been rallying behind. It’s named after the 22 year-old Iranian woman who was shot and killed by the regime’s morality police for not wearing her headcover properly. The bill would “impose sanctions on the supreme leader of Iran and the president of Iran and their respective offices for human rights abuses and support for terrorism.”

Bipartisan support for this bill is a sign that leaders of both parties want the United States and Iran to be more tough on its regime. The Iranian regime murders and imprisons dissidents trying to overthrow the hardline government. Although the Biden administration has taken several steps to sanction Iranian human rights violators, it has not targeted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or President Ebrahim Raisi and other high-ranking officials who are responsible for the regime’s brutal crackdown against protesters.

The Mahsa Amini Act is introduced In the previous Congress, it was rejected by all Democrat. The bill is now supported by the Democrats, despite Republicans controlling the House. According to congressional sources, this shift reflects growing dissatisfaction with the U.S. response on the Iranian protests. They are now in their fifth month. According to congressional sources, the bill was reintroduced Friday.

Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.The bill’s creator, Rep. Jim Banks (R. Ind. Free Beacon Biden’s administration has been too slow in sanctioning Iranian leaders for human rights violations. Banks cited Free Beacon report This shows that European countries are outpacing the United States when sanctioning Iranian leaders in response to the protests.

“Regular Iranians like Mahsa Amini are being murdered and persecuted by the Iranian regime, but the Biden administration is still trying to cozy up to Iran’s senior officials so [Biden] can cut an even more disastrous nuclear deal,” Banks said. Banks said.