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If the report is accurate, the administration will be heading toward a major showdown with Congress. "After years spent making the case to the international business community and foreign governments that U.S. sanctions target the full range of Iran's illicit activities, including ballistic missiles, terrorism, money laundering and support for Assad, the Obama administration now is willing to redefine any sanction that brought Iran to the table as 'nuclear-related,'" Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says. "This will be unwelcome news to Congress that measures, for example, designed to counter Iranian ballistic missiles development are nuclear-related for the purposes of sanctions relief but are not restricted under the actual Iran nuclear agreement."
Dubowitz recommends that Congress "double down on sanctions targeting the full range of the regime's dangerous activities."
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