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Iran lawmakers raise missile, Guard spending to challenge U.S.

By NASSER KARIMI and JON While lawmakers stressed news agency IRNA report-
GAMBRELL the bill wouldn’t violate ed. Parliament speaker Ali
Associated Press that agreement, it ensures Larijani after the vote de-
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Chant- those both home and scribed the measure as just
ing “Death to America,” abroad know Iran will con- the first step the country
Iran’s parliament voted tinue confronting America could take.
unanimously Sunday to in- either in the Persian Gulf or The bill now heads to an
crease spending on its bal- legislatively, analysts say. oversight committee called
listic missile program and “They want to show that the Guardian Council,
the foreign operations of its the pressure that the U.S. is which is expected to ap-
paramilitary Revolutionary exerting on Iran, they can prove it. Abbas Araghchi, a
Guard, part of a sanctions respond with similar mea- deputy foreign minister and
bill mirroring a new U.S. law sures,” said Adnan Tabata- senior nuclear negotiator
targeting the country. bai, an Iran analyst based on hand for the vote, said
While offering hundreds of in Germany who is the CEO moderate President Hassan
millions of dollars in new of the Center for Applied Rouhani’s government sup- This photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, shows an open
funding, the lawmakers’ bill Research in Partnership ported the bill. session of the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran.
offered a tactic as old as with the Orient. “It’s not “The bill has very wisely tried Associated Press
the slogan shouted since that important that those not to violate the (nuclear put toward several proj- The Guard, separate from
the 1979 Islamic Revolu- measures may not hurt the deal) and also gives no ects, including the Defense Iran’s conventional military
tion — using America’s own U.S. in the same way. ... chance to the other party Ministry and its intelligence forces, answers only to Su-
tactics against it. They want to show they are to manipulate it,” he said agencies. Among the preme Leader Ayatollah Ali
The vote salves public an- not just standing still and in comments reported by agencies receiving money Khamenei.
ger in Iran over U.S. Presi- watching this happening.” IRNA. “This bill is an astute would be the Revolution- IRNA also said the bill re-
dent Donald Trump’s con- In the session Sunday, 240 response to the enmity and ary Guards’ Quds force, an ferred to the money also
stant threats to renegotiate lawmakers voted for the wickedness of the United expeditionary force run by being used to improve
or abandon the nuclear bill, with only one absten- States against Iran.” Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s defense against a nu-
deal struck by world pow- tion from the 247 legislators Under terms of the bill, who has been advising clear attack and develop
ers under his predecessor. on hand, Iran’s state-run some $800 million will be forces in Syria and Iraq. nuclear propellers. q

Floods, landslides triggered by

heavy rain kill 47 in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) two dozen other people have been displaced by
— Landslides and flood- missing and feared dead the floods and landslides,
ing triggered by heavy rain after three days of heavy which began Friday, he
have killed at least 47 peo- downpours in at least nine said.
ple in southern Nepal and southern districts of the Hi- Police said floodwaters
left thousands homeless, malayan country, said po- toppled telephone towers
police said Sunday. lice spokesman Pushkar and power lines, cutting Nepalese men carry children on their shoulders as they wade
The death toll was expect- Karki. communications and elec- through flood waters in village Ramgadhwa in Birgunj, Nepal,
ed to go up, with around Around 31,000 families tricity in many areas.q Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. Associated Press