House Republicans and Democrats Team Up To Sanction Iranian Supreme Leader and Other Top Regime Figures – By Adam Kredo (Free Beacon) / Jan 27, 2023
Leaders in both parties want US to take tougher stance against regime amid violent crackdown on protesters
House Republicans and Democrats are teaming up to sanction Iran’s supreme leader and other top regime figures for human rights crimes, according to congressional sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Foreign policy leaders from both parties are galvanizing behind a piece of legislation, dubbed the Mahsa Amini Act after the 22-year-old Iranian woman who was killed by the regime’s morality police for improperly wearing her head covering. 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.”
The bipartisan support for the bill signals that leaders in both parties want the United States to take a tougher line on the Iranian regime as it murders and imprisons dissidents who are protesting to take down the hardline government. While the Biden administration has enacted several salvos of sanctions on Iranian human rights abusers, it has stopped short of targeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Ebrahim Raisi, and other senior figures responsible for running the regime’s violent crackdown on protesters.
