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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee announced plans to introduce Iran sanctions legislation.

The proposed legislation announced Tuesday by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) matches a similar bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would target Iran's energy sector and the export of refined petroleum to the Islamic Republic, among other measures.

Dodd, who sponsored similar legislation in the last Congress, in a statement on the Senate floor framed the enhancement of sanctions against last week's revelation that Iran was running a second secret uranium enrichment plant near Qom, a holy city.