Key House Dem calls for new Iranian sanctions

The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Congress needs to impose new sanctions on Iran for its provocative ballistic missile tests, which so far have gone unanswered by the Obama administration.

“I would hope that the administration would seem to lessen its objections to Congress coming out with new sanctions,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said Wednesday during a hearing about implementation of the nuclear pact between six world powers, the United Nations and Tehran.