A senior Senate Democrat argued Wednesday that the Senate should delay voting on an Iran sanctions bill as a goodwill gesture following a pair of terrorist attacks on the rogue regime launched by the Islamic State.

“Instead of rubbing salt into a wound, just to say let’s wait a few days and consider what to do,” Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said Wednesday the Senate floor. “If we were in their shoes, I think we would appreciate that gesture.”

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