Similarly significant is the fact that Bolton is a longstanding supporter of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and a regular attendee of the summer rallies, which take place annually. The latest such rally conveyed clear recommendations for what can be done following the imposition of comprehensive, terrorism-related sanctions on the IRGC. Not only that, but the NCRI’s overall platform puts US strategy into the context of a defined goal that has recently been hinted at by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other Trump administration officials, namely the promotion of domestic Iranian forces that would exploit the weakness of sanctions-damaged institutions in order to facilitate a peaceful transition to democratic governance.
On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives voted on a long-anticipated sanctions bill targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran along with Russia and North Korea. Progress on a previous version of the bill was delayed on procedural grounds after initially passing the Senate by a nearly unprecedented margin of 98-2.Some Democrats the accused the Republican Party of stalling the bill
