When Iran launches missiles, Democrats want transparency from Trump

by Pete Kasperowicz | Jul 10, 2017, 12:01 AM

For six months now, the Trump administration has been required to notify Congress within 48 hours any time Iran conducts a ballistic missile launch.

That requirement will expire at the end of 2019. But even though that's more than two years away, Democrats are already thinking about extending it for another three years.

Reps. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., and Seth Moulton, D-Mass., proposed legislation last week to extend the requirement all the way through 2022. The bill is a sign that even Democrats are worried, like Trump, about Iran's ongoing missile testing.

s of both parties say those tests are a possible violation of the language related to the Iran nuclear agreement and something that Congress needs to know about as they happen, something Kihuen made clear when his bill came out.

"Despite condemnation from Congress, the administration and the U.N. Security Council, Iran has continued to expand its ballistic missile program, posing a threat to our national security and that of one of our closest [allies] in the region, Israel," he said last week.