The Solidifying Iran Sanctions Act (SISA) is being spearheaded by Representatives Michelle Steel, R-Calif., Susie Lee, D-Nev., and committee chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
The bill seeks to make permanent the 1996 economic sanctions against Iran, which are credited with stunting the country's research and development of nuclear and biological weapons and preventing terroristic actions against the U.S. and its Arab allies and partners. The measure passed out of committee unanimously by voice vote and will be headed to the entire House floor for a vote.
"I am very grateful to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for voting to pass my bill, the Solidifying Iran Sanctions Act today," said Steel in a press release obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. "Iran's evil regime has proven they cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith. Only through strength can we show the path to peace, end their brutal attacks on their own people, and prevent a nuclear Iran."
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McCaul commended Steel for her bill and said he is "proud to support this important legislation." "This bill takes the long overdue step of striking the arbitrary sunset from the Iran Sanctions Act, so that sanctions against the regime will only be lifted if Iran stops its threatening behavior," the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman said.
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Lee said the bipartisan bill "is one step closer to becoming law and keeping Iran in check." "Regardless of political party, Congress must stand firm against the Iranian regime's brutal repression of its own people, its funding of terrorism abroad, and its reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons," Lee said.
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The bill has a growing bipartisan list of cosponsors nationwide, including Representatives August Pfluger, R-Texas, Donald Norcross, D-N.J., Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., and Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Steel's bill comes as President Biden reportedly talks with Iran leaders to curtail Tehran's nuclear development. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday once again made it clear he is opposed to any "mini-agreements" between the U.S. and Iran on a nuclear deal following reports last week that diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran had been quietly ongoing.
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"We have made it clear to our American friends time and again… that we oppose the agreements," Netanyahu said. "We have also told them that the most limited understandings, what are termed 'mini-agreements,' do not – in our view – serve the goal, and we are opposed to them as well."
Steel's bill passed out of committee on Wednesday and is expected to receive a total vote on the House floor.
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