"Any additional sanctions are actually aimed at the economic strangulation of Iran, but not at solving the problem of non-proliferation," its deputy foreign minister, Gennady Gatilov, told Russia's Interfax news agency.
The move is seen as a rebuke to President Barack Obama's threat to veto any additional sanctions on the country during his State of the Union address.
In a Foreign Relations subcommittee meeting on the topic, Menendez stated, "It was a bad deal, and I will oppose any further changes to U.S. policy - any additional sanctions relief - that are not conditioned on clear, upfront concessions from the Castro regime that moves the Cuban people toward a free and open democratic government".
The BOA chairman, Lord Moynihan, says its appeal has "every chance" of success, arguing that the BOA's rule is an eligibility criterion and not an additional sanction.
It was therefore correct to select an additional sanction.
For these flagrant fouls, impose an additional sanction: two penalty kicks.
School officials wrote that community service wasn't appropriate as an additional sanction because it would have been "strictly punitive".
Those who believe in democracy ought to place the freedom to vote near the top of any list, and consider its removal a serious additional sanction.
And the disciplinary said "no additional sanction was necessary".
Separately, she will rule on whether to impose any of the additional sanctions proposed by the nine states.
