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rachel oswald is a national security reporter for "cq roll call." are these sanctions on iran new? and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? rachel: these senators are coming after -- there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions. when, as you remember, iran carried out a spate of medium ballistic missile tests. president obama was in office at the time and he strongly pushed against democrats from pushing sanctions now. with him out of the office, that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions. these are sanctions that would require the sanctioning of anybody directly and indirectly involved with iran's ballistic missile program. there are also new sanctions that would be imposed on the iranian revolutionary guard core

host: rachel oswald is a national security reporter for "cq roll call.

. >> rachel oswald is national security reporter with cq roll call. are these sanctions on iran new and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? >> these senators are coming after -- there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions when iran carried out a spate of ballistic missile tests but president obama strongly pushed against democrats from approaching sanctions now but with him out of the office that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions that would require the

. >> rachel oswald is national security reporter with cq roll call. are these sanctions on iran new and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? >> these senators are coming after -- there was a

isit ncicap.org] week ahead in congress rachel oswald spoke about the week ahead in congress, including a debate on iran sanctions. host: are these sanctions on iran new and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? reporter: these senators are coming after there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions. when as you remember iran carried out a spate of medium ballistic missile tests. president obama was in office at the time and he strongly pushed against democrats from pushing sanctions now. with him out of the office, that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions. they're sanctions that would require the sanctioning of anybody directly

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rachel oswald is a national security reporter for "cq roll call." are these sanctions on iran new? and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? rachel: these senators are coming after -- there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions. when, as you remember, iran carried out a spate of medium ballistic missile tests. president obama was in office at the time and he strongly pushed against democrats from pushing sanctions now. with him out of the office, that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions. these are sanctions that would require the sanctioning of anybody directly and indirectly involved with iran's ballistic missile program. there are also new sanctions that would be imposed on the iranian revolutionary guard core for their support of regionally destablizing activities and terrorism. host: in your recent article at cq.com on this iran sanctions bill that's coming up, you also write about a likely russian sanctions amendment, unrelated, that could come up as an amendment on this bill. why now? rachel: these sanctions are as a response to the 20

. >> rachel oswald is national security reporter with cq roll call. are these sanctions on iran new and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? >> these senators are coming after -- there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions when iran carried out a spate of ballistic missile tests but president obama strongly pushed against democrats from approaching sanctions now but with him out of the office that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions that would require the sanctioning of anyone directly involved with the ballistic missile program and new sanctions on the iranian revolutionary guard corps. >> in your recent article at cq.com on this iran sanctions bill you write about likely russian sanctions amendment unrelated that could come up to an amendment to this bill. what is the purpose of these sanctions on russia and why now? >> these sanctions are a response to the 2016 election interference. democrats introduced a bill with considerable republican support back in january and it's taken this long for there to build