Congress seeks to help Tunisia, hinder Iran
A look at the Middle East issues Congress will be addressing the week of July 13.
Congress shifts its focus to one of the Middle East’s few bright spots next week, even as it seeks to ensure that nuclear talks with Iran don’t further add to the regional chaos.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee's MENA panel holds a hearing July 14 with a panel of outside experts on “Tunisia’s fragile democratic transition.” The hearing comes as the White House on July 10 completed the process to designate the country as America’s 16th major non-NATO ally, a symbolic move that also comes with “tangible privileges including eligibility for training, loans of equipment for cooperative research and development, and Foreign Military Financing for commercial leasing of certain defense articles,” according to the State Department.
